How Will Technology Affect Cities?

Are the Network and its attendant gadgets driving us apart or bringing us together? Smart City Radio investigates.

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July 7, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

"Shut down the network, turn off your computer, unload your digital gadgets. Now, consider how our recent lives have been changed by technology. Have our lives been altered in truly vital or merely frivolous ways? Are the Network and its attendant gadgets driving us apart or bringing us together? Well ask our guests, James Gleick and James Phillips. James Gleick is a former editor and reporter for The New York Times and his latest book is "What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier." James Phillips is a pioneer in the technology industry, founding SkyTel and CEO at IPIX, who has just become the chairman of the new FedEx Technology Institute at the University of Memphis." Listen Sunday, 9 a.m. on the WKNO-FM Stations and again Tuesday, 9 a.m. Or you can hear the show streamed live on the Web.

Thanks to Sheila Edmundson

Read the full story: What Just Happened?

Sunday, July 7, 2002 in Smart City

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