More and more people are regularly communicating via blogs, Facebook, and Twitter, but what do these exchanges amount to, and are we communicating more about less? Exploring the relationships between digital culture, anti-intellectualism, fundamentalism, and American education is Susan Jacoby, the author of The Age of American Unreason, and Nicholas Carr, a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review who writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. He wrote The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and radio host.

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