Episode notes
In this solo episode of The Story of Us: From Cosmic Dawn to the Depths of Being, Jeff Ellison pulls on his 1990 J-Town All-Stars gear, climbs into the time machine, and takes us from pay phones and Blockbuster late fees to the always-on, always-scrolling world we live in today.
Born in 1975—the same year as Microsoft, home Pong, and the Betamax—Jeff and his buddies have lived through more technological shifts in 50 years than any generation in human history. From paper maps and pagers to AOL dial-up, smartphones, and rage-bait algorithms, he unpacks what this “technology tsunami” is doing to our nervous systems and our sense of reality.
Using the metaphor of an information deluge, Jeff traces a short history of the “human data diet” in three acts—Oral & Local, Print & Broadcast, and the Digital & ...
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meditationchallengesmisinformationdisinformationstoriesmentalhealthCopingAnxietyReadingempathyresiliencehumanitytechnologysmartphonesdatainformationhistory