Technology: Impacts of Human Ingenuity with Edward Tenner
Full Frame • 53m
Not since the Industrial Revolution has technology so fundamentally altered how we work and communicate. These innovations made us more efficient and connected, but they also set off unprecedented changes with consequences we’re still struggling to understand. Host Mike Walter talks with historian and writer Edward Tenner who looks to the past for insights about the unintended impacts of human ingenuity.
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