Note to Self
Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? Note to Self explores these and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab, Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, Nancy and many others.© WNYC Studios
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Episodes (666)
Hi, I’m David, and I’m a Digital Addict
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The 'Home of the Future' Will Save the Planet... and Drive You Crazy
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Sleep and Your Screens, Not Friends
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How Businesses Are Rating YOU
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Yelp Reviews: The New Frontier of Free Speech
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Hiring by Video Game
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Inside Google X, The New Bell Labs
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China's One App to Rule them All
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Parenting Strategies for the Digital Age
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The Way We Teach Computing Hurts Women
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A Labor Revolution or a Return to Serfdom: Could You Thrive in the Gig Economy?
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The Hottest Thing From Google Is Over Before It Began
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The Simple Steps Behind World Class Efficiency
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Emoji Gone Wild: We Text Without Words for a Month
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Holstee Manifesto: The History of the One Motivational Poster that Pervades Star...
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Machine Learning + Love
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The World Would be a Better Place if We [DELETED]
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Mindhacking: Finding Serenity in a Tech-Obsessed World
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, But Does Airbnb?
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How to Be a Young Boss (Or Work for One)
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Cicada 3301: The Great Internet Mystery Solved!
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The Tipping Point: How Amazon Reached It and Why This Startup Hasn’t
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Dude, Where's My Bitcoin? Tales of Real People Dealing With a Virtual Currency
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Can You *Like* God?
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How To Kick Digital Butt in a 21st-Century Workplace
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I Love You Mother Earth, But I Love My iPhone More
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Bringing the Internet to Public Housing, Your Neighbors and a Unicorn
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These Games Could Be Good for Young Brains
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A Civic Call for NYC Techies: Bring Digital Talent into Public School Classrooms
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Programming Families: How Kids are Like Software, and What the Government Could...
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Tiny Estonia Beats the U.S. on E-Voting
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Safety Nets: Broadband & Wifi in a Post-Sandy World
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Who Is Jeff Bezos? And What is Amazon?
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Coffee and E-Cigarettes
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Freelance Nation: “The Greatest Economic Transformation in Human History”?
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When the FBI Knocks: A Techie’s Moment of Truth
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How Twitter Created Connections But Drove the Founders Apart
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Mutated Code and the Amish Algorithm
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Obamacare and the Biometric Bracelet Experiment
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NYC Tech: Who’s Your Daddy?
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Phones + Mischief: From Muggers to Dennis Crowley
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A Google Map of Our Brains: The Next Chapter in Neuroscience
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Real Estate, Rackets, Risk: When Rules Get Rewritten
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Know Thy @Neighbor: The End of Urban Anonymity and Rural Solitude
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Grossology, Tolerant Taxis + Smart Bikes
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Computerized Confessions: Biographies and Wedding Toasts in the Digital Age
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Your So-Called Future Life: Homes and To-Do Lists Get 'Smart'
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Online Shopping Gets Real
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Brain Drain: New York City Losing Out in Brain Biz
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