Could you, would you, go one full hour without your phone? The average American spends one-third of their waking hours on a smartphone; we’ve been told our devices make life better, faster, and easier. What happens when we choose to live without them – or when we are forced to? In this episode, we’ll talk to media studies professor Douglas Rushkoff, get the down low from a U.S. senator who sat in a “digitally sequestered” hearing for three weeks (guess which one) – and travel to the WiFi-free town of Green Bank, West Virginia, to find out exactly what happens when we unplug.
Listen to Douglas Rushkoff’s podcast Team Human: http://teamhuman.fm
Get Douglas’ book Team Human: https://rushkoff.com/books/team-human-book
Find more resources about this episode at shouldthisexist.com
Subscribe to our excellent newsletter at http://eepurl.com/gnZTf9
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Introducing: Offsite Adventures
Introducing: Ingenious with Caterina Fake
Introducing Spark & Fire Season 2
Can we trip our way to better mental health?
Nuclear power in a six-pack
Cloud brightening for climate fever
The promise of a bioartificial kidney
Could this game replace the SAT?
VR vs. PTSD
Young blood / old brains
Grandma, here’s your robot
Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive.
The deepfake detective
Season 2 Trailer: Should This Exist?
What went wrong with the world wide web – and how we can fix it
How to hack your way out of aging
The next gen of meat will be grown in a lab
What if you could Photoshop your voice?
We can change the DNA of an entire species — in the wild
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Without Fail
Hannibal Buress
Longform
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Conversations