Episode 257: Aural Fixation

David and Tamler deliver a PODCAST episode, one of many that comes from the INTERNET, that you’ll probably listen to through Air Pods or some other kind of WIRELESS HEADPHONES as you go about your day.

(Incidentally, the topic of the episode is Marshall McLuhan on how new forms of media profoundly shape our experience and identity, but in a way that makes us focus on the content of the specific medium and not the medium itself.)

Plus, can algorithms help to optimize our well-being, and Steven Pinker transforms his ideas into a new asset class of NFTs.

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Links:

• Best-Selling Author & Harvard Professor Steven Pinker Will Transform His Ideas into NFTs | Blockster
• I Asked an Algorithm to Optimize My Life. Here's What Happened | WIRED
• The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan
• Marshall McLuhan - Wikipedia
• Marshall McLuhan Interview from Playboy (1969)