This is an episode in our occasional series exploring devices and our relationships with them.  Our guests reflect on devices, their lives, and a bit of history.

This is an episode in our occasional series exploring devices and our relationships with them. Our guests reflect on devices, their lives, and a bit of history.

Left to our own Devices 3: From Blackberry through Teddy Ruxpin to Sous Vide

This is a podcast about a sort of  “enchantment” we’re under– the technology watches and enables the machines to have an impact on us. For each episode we'll explore a hypothesis from multiple angles including what’s ethical, where are the lines, and how to handle increasingly fuzzy boundaries. Do we expect too much of our technology? Do we care or even understand what we’re trading away?  

We ponder where machines ‘’quantified us”... in great detail... for extraordinary insight.   And we'll consider where the quantified human becomes a directed or even controlled. With a bit of irreverence, we'll conduct this investigation through a series of discussions, thought experiments, and examples.

We want to get under the covers on who gets to set boundaries around technology and why they do it.  We will explore how much we should trust these boundaries setters to make good decisions for us.

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This is a podcast about a sort of “enchantment” we’re under– the technology watches and enables the machines to have an impact on us. For each episode we'll explore a hypothesis from multiple angles including what’s ethical, where are the lines, and how to handle increasingly fuzzy boundaries. Do we expect too much of our technology? Do we care or even understand what we’re trading away? We ponder where machines ‘’quantified us”... in great detail... for extraordinary insight. And we'll consider where the quantified human becomes a directed or even controlled. With a bit of irreverence, we'll conduct this investigation through a series of discussions, thought experiments, and examples. We want to get under the covers on who gets to set boundaries around technology and why they do it. We will explore how much we should trust these boundaries setters to make good decisions for us.

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Left to our own Devices 3: From Blackberry through Teddy Ruxpin to Sous Vide