#466 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?

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Yeah, we don't we don't see each other in person enough or even even on the internet enough, but um I always love talking to you. So let's just jump right into it. I'll remind people you are the uh director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale. You are both an MD and a sociologist and have studied uh many interesting topics related to um, I guess, how human beings and uh and now technology affect one another. I and uh I d we have um too much to talk about.

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