The Technoskeptic: Recent Episodes
The Technoskeptic
It's clear that our newest technologies are rapidly remaking our lives. What's less clear is if our lives are actually improving. Whether it's privacy violations, environmental degradation, cognitive decline, addiction, income inequality, or stunted relationships, the costs of our tech obsession are expensive indeed. The Technoskeptic podcast features in-depth interviews with experts about different ways tech is impacting society. What's really going on, and what, if anything, can be done? Companion to the magazine https://www.thetechnoskeptic.com
Facial recognition expert Clare Garvie explains how police are using (and abusing) this dangerous technology.
Josh Golin, Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a corporate culture of consumerism and surveillance that has ensnared our kids.
Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.
Activist, author, and sociologist Gail Dines discusses the impact of pornography—particularly in its virulent and violent Internet form—on culture.
Father Jim Keenan, director of the Jesuit Institute at Boston College, discusses Pope Francis's views on environmentalism and social justice.
Jonathan Taplin, former music and film maven, tells what the new rentier economy of Internet aggregators has done to the arts, journalism, and democracy.
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.
Neurologist Adam Gazzaley discusses how the brain's attentional system functions–or doesn't–when buffeted by digital distraction.