On the Degeneration of Attentiveness
Critic Nicholas Carr talks about how technology-driven trends affect our cultural and personal lives. (56 minutes)
Place, Community, and Memory
Several essayists and a novelist explore the important ways in which we (and the communities we inhabit) are shaped and sustained by the particular places in which we live. (100 minutes)
The Word Made Scarce
Barry Sanders discusses teaching in the age of technology, the effects of literacy on society, and the links between illiteracy and violence. (54 minutes)