The Internet is Crack Podcast
@theinternetiscrack
A professor asked students to put their phones away during a seminar—and many couldn’t. What looked like distraction started to look like addiction. Conversation with Randolph R. Lewis on how technology, politics, and culture are reshaping society. Full episode: youtu.be/s2_XY3-mBrg #podcast
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