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Even though you know the answer (no), you'll probably still enjoy the show, which features selections from two funny and inteligent talks.
Jello Biafra explains how the last supposedly revolutionary technological advances--cell phones and the Internet--have weakened real communities and increased alienation.
Then urban-design theorist James Howard Kunstler discusses our technology gurus' (at Google) inability to understand that technology cannot solve the problem of declining fossil fuel reserves. In a nutshell: you can make iPods out of petroleum (Dude,) but not vice versa.
This installment is a replay of NWN #58 (April 2009).
James Howard Kunstler
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