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Monday Jun 15, 2020
The Information Age and Its Implications
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
In the Information Age, information has become a commodity that is quickly and widely disseminated and is easily accessible, especially through digital mediums. How did we get here and what does it mean for us? Discussed in this episode: The origin of speech determined by genetic, anatomical, and anthropological studies, cave paintings in the Paleolithic periods, the origin of writing, talking drums, the telegraph, the telephone, the Flynn Effect, research by Hubel and Wiesel on the visual cortex, the brain's dependence on the environment in development, and the positive and negative implications of the Information Age.
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