S9E3—100 Things We’ve Lost To The Internet

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When’s the last time you got a handwritten letter, or stared out the window, or went on vacation without checking email? Did the Internet kill the good ol’ days, or is this just nostalgia talking?

Chris and Adam dive into the book 100 Things We Lost to the Internet and explore the difference between true wisdom and mere wistfulness. Tech has become the de facto symbol of progress, but is everything new a true advancement? How could we know the difference.

In this episode

Among the 100 Things We Lost are…

• Boredom
• Getting Lost
• Relying on the Doctor
• Uninhibitedness
• The Spanish-English Dictionary
• Solitude
• Your Attention Span
• Spelling
• The New Kid
• Memory
• Scrabble Tiles
• Social Cues
• Closure

Links

• Learn more about the author Pamela Paul and her book 100 Things We Lost to the Internet

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