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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: Learning About Where We Goofed Up: NDP 172
Description: What went right?Do you ever wonder how we got here? Do you ever think about what has changed over hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution?The past few decades have seen exponential growth in technology. Smartphones. Passenger trips to space. Electric vehicles. Lots of crazy new tech. In most of our lifetimes, technological advances have dominated the changes we experience.Science changed the world. Medical advances like germ theory and surgical techniques have arguably improved our lives. Fossil fuel use has underwritten most of our ‘advances’ in making thing...