As difficult as the global LOCKDOWN has been, we're fortunate to have a lot of modern technology making it somewhat easier to adapt to a world of massive ISOLATION.

But What The IF... We had the pandemic, but NO INTERNET?

Aside from the ancient technology of SOAP and masks, the internet is the single greatest intervention being used to help civilization adapt to life under quarantine.

ANDY IHNATKO, the brilliant technology journalist and beloved raconteur joins us (yay!) as we create an engrossing ALTERNATE HISTORY in which the PANDEMIC smacked the world… in the 1980’s!

Andy Ihnatko is a tech writer for WGBH. He was The Chicago Sun-Times tech columnist for nearly twenty years and a Macworld columnist for more than two decades.

Learn more about Andy!

Ihnatko.com

Twitter: @ihnatko

Instagram: @ihnatko

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Special thanks to Kyle Crichton, Howard Zheng and Illia Zheng for their help with the show.

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Philip & Matt,

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