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A world without our devices

Douglas Rushkoff, Media Theorist & Professor

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.

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“I would love to throw my phone in the Hudson River and just not have to deal with it, but I just … [sigh].”

— A Very Relatable Teenager

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