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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: The Soul's Social Dilemma: A Spiritual Take on the Popular Netflix Documentary
Description: What impact does technology and social media have on our lives? Is it freeing or enslaving us? Is it helping us become greater and freer? Are we controlling it or is it controlling us? Much has been written and argued about on this topic. Two futuristic scenarios have been posited -- one in which machines end up ruling us, and the other in which we rule the machines. The latest popular Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, sounds the alarm about the way technology today controls us -- manipulating how we think, act, and live our lives.
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