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The Great Brain Suck

Do cell phones, iPods, and other automated devices make us smarter? Or could the opposite be true?By The Walt Bodine Show, Jan 8, 2009

Kansas City, MO – As smarter technologies continue to be developed and used in our everyday lives, how do the ways we interact with one another change? Author Eugene Halton joined us for a conversation on the relationship between technology and American culture, the topic of his book The Great Brain Suck: And Other American Epiphanies.

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