Your Smartphone Has Hijacked Your Life

Smartphones put the world at your fingertips. With a seemingly endless supply of apps, you can get a date, scout out the best restaurant in town, and pull up the fastest route to the dinner table, all in a matter of seconds. The services behind apps like these seek to give you the best experience, tailored to your specific tastes. But are they reducing our experiences to ones dictated by algorithms? Should we worry about living the mediated life, or embrace it? Featuring Christine Rosen, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation, Senior Editor, The New Atlantis; Daniel Sarewitz, Co-director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University, Professor of Science and Society, Arizona State University; Marvin Ammori, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation, Author, On Internet Freedom; Miriam Warren, Vice President of New Markets, Yelp.