Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2021-08-18
Alex Kantrowitz & Scott Heiferman: books mentioned on Big Technology Podcast
Can We Still Be Optimistic About The Internet? — With Meetup Founder Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman is the founder of Meetup, a website that connects people online and gets them to meet each other offline. Heiferman joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the internet can still bring people together vs.
Scott Heiferman discussed Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam. Alex Kantrowitz discussed The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bowling Alone
Bowling Alone by Robert D.
Discussed“And people saying hello to each other and looking after each other in the days and, you know, weeks after that, that moment and led me to reading the book Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam, which I hadn't been aware of.”
Where to get it
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The Facebook Effect
Discussed“Like David Kirkpatrick's book talks about how people in Columbia were organizing against the government. I'm kind of curious if you ever anticipated that technology would be used in sort of this, you know, tear apart political context.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Always Day One
“Like, there's, speaking of, I'll just say one more thing, speaking of like the loneliness stuff, right? Like while I was doing research about this for Always Day One we were thinking about the downside of technology and where Facebook was going in particular.”
Passing The Cult of We
“Yeah, we just had Elliot Brown and Maureen Farrell who wrote The Cult of We, and so this will be the last question I ask about it, but I'm fascinated by the story.”