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Jul 2019
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199. Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, A...

Brian McCullough
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Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance, going back to tv, or telephones, or even writing letters? The new book, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter tries to look at this question from a his ... Show More
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