sense to a lot of people, including my parents. some otherses have been arguing that when properly applied breakthroughs in technology are making us smarter and more connected, not only for socialize gs and consuming but driving political change. our next guest, clive thompson argues that you're better off with a brain on technology and his new book "smarter than you think how technology is changing our minds for the better". >> i'm glad to be here, thank you. >> you talk about the fact we have technology on our phones that can turn us into sort of miniature accountability czars, we can look at the police or government and actually take more control. i want to play a video about that. take a look at. >> protesters. >> what you're seeing here is some of the pepper spraying that occurred during the occupy protests and of course, that was first covered by people's