In this episode, Josh and Ian talk about the uses and abuses of technology throughout modernity. In the first half, they talk about the roots and history of technology, art and creativity, language as a tool, mathematics and logic, planned obsolescence, nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, irradiated cookies, the history of the World Wide Web and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the demand for data and information sharing over the internet, accessibility to the deep web, ...