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Is Autocorrect Enhancing Our Brains or Eroding Our Humanity?

Feb 22, 202239 min
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Episode description

Philosopher and historian of technology Justin E. H. Smith has been diving into the past to see where our dreams about the internet have come from. And he has a warning for what he thinks is going wrong in how things have evolved in recent years — and what tech might be doing to us as learners and thinkers. Understanding that past, he argues, can help make a course correction.
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