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Topical Currents

Reclaiming What We’ve Lost In A World Of Constant Connection

08/11/14 - Monday’s Topical Currents considers how our constant connectivity is engulfing our world.  What have we lost to the long hours we spend in digital space?  Award-winning writer Michael Harris has authored, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connectivity. The technological advances of the past decade have revolutionized the way we live.  Popular opinion dictates that this has improved our lives but rarely considers what we’ve lost in the process. Learn more on Topical Currents Monday at 1pm.
 

Songs in the program:

Twitter Song by Ingrid Michaelson

http://youtu.be/tgfOk8ma4bM

 

Social Media Song: Crazy Little Thing The Web

http://youtu.be/x96KP1wfbpY

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