#276: Utopia is Creepy

Published: Feb. 7, 2017, 6:22 p.m.

b'Nicholas Carr and I discuss why he thinks our utopian future is creepy, how the internet is making us dumber, and why doing mundane tasks that we otherwise would outsource to robots or computers is actually a source of satisfaction and human flourishing. We finish our discussion by outlining a middle path approach to technology -- one that doesn\\u2019t reject it fully but simultaneously seeks to mitigate its potential downsides.'