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Technologies Change How You Work and Play
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By Tracy Moran
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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
There s no halting progress, so learn how artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies and other new technologies will change the way we all work, live and play.
By Tracy Moran
May28, 2021
Are you overwhelmed with emails? (This newsletter aside, of course). Would work be better as a game? And how will artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies and other new technologies change the way we all work, live and play? This week on a technology-themed edition of
Wherever You Get Your Podcasts, we explore some podcasts featuring thinkers who are attempting to answer these questions.
Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Scottish author Damian Barr – who wrote the moving memoir
Maggie and Me and the stunning novel You Will Be Safe Here – fronts this lovely podcast which invites authors to read from their newest works and share personal stories. Going on its 13th year, there’s an enormous backlog of great guests to listen to, including Yaa Gyasi, Maggie O’Farrell, Armistead Maupin and more. It’s a great way to keep up to date with new acclaimed novels to get your hands on, or to go back and find episodes about books you’ve read and hear them from the author’s mouth, and witness further insight into how the book came to be and what inspired the author.
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Do you ever pop on a podcast to fall asleep to? I do. Every night. If youâre anything like me, youâll be familiar with that feeling of drifting off while listening. Sentences swim around you, stripped of their meaning. Words collect in little incoherent groups at the edge of consciousness, as you tip-toe a tightrope on the outskirts of sleep.
In BBC Soundsâ comedy-horror âsleep-aidâ The Sink, writer Natasha Hodgson, producer Andy Goddard, and composer David Cumming, have somehow managed â through alchemy of language and sound â to recreate that exact feeling.
Even while trying to remember certain scenes to write this piece, I find them slipping away like dreams. I think itâs something to do with their lack of internal logic â shapes shift, locations lurch, characters change â but I canât be sure. What I do remember is that there are birds, scarecrows, fires, swimming pools, other things.
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Hey there, it’s Stephen Dubner. Before today’s episode, I’d like to tell you about a brand-new podcast that I think you’ll be interested in. It’s called
Sudhir Breaks the Internet. Sudhir Venkatesh is a sociologist, at Columbia University, who during the first couple decades of his career embedded himself with drug gangs and gun runners and sex workers. He then wrote a fascinating book called