Theory of Everything #3: Cell Phones

Your pet can now own a cell phone -- what's the world coming to?

2004 / Benjamen Walker / Theory of Everything, USA

Your pet can now own a cell phone -- what's the world coming to?

Ethicist Christine Rosen shares some similarities between the insane and cell-phone chatterers, journalist Clarke Cooper warns that cell phones are sapping our human essence, and Benjamen Walker talks to his cat while trying to explain how Foucault's theory of panopticism relates to our cell phones.


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Benjamen Walker

Benjamen Walker (@benjamenwalker) has made radio for NPR, WNYC, WFMU, and the BBC. Currently he produces Benjamin Walker's The Theory of Everything, part of the Radiotopia network from the Public Radio Exchange (PRX).


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