A new machine will not fix human behavior · Proposed air date:
Friends are ready to replace a slow but capable laptop until Dr. Dave learns that more than sixty browser tabs are open. Closing and organizing the tabs makes the machine feel better than new, and Dr. Dave identifies the larger pattern: people often misread a behavior problem as a technology problem, so replacement hardware simply recreates the frustration.
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Proposed recording date: 2015-05-23. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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