Life Examined
Technology’s impact on human relationships
For millennia, machines and innovation have transformed our society including our most intimate relationships with one another.
By Jonathan Bastian • • 51m ListenFor millennia, machines and innovation have transformed our society including our most intimate relationships with one another. The plow, washing machine, chatbots and Artificial Intelligence have shaped relationships in the past and continue to impact how we interact with each other today and into the future. Will new advances in technology diminish the need for human to human interaction?
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Innovation has driven social change for centuries; the wheel, the steam engine, and the printing press all ushered consequential changes for human civilization.
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