{"id":183309,"date":"2024-07-29T08:54:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=183309"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:57:45","slug":"podcast-1009-the-vital-skills-were-losing-to-technology-and-how-to-reclaim-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/self-improvement\/podcast-1009-the-vital-skills-were-losing-to-technology-and-how-to-reclaim-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #1,009: The Vital Skills We\u2019re Losing to Technology (And How to Reclaim Them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you get lost while driving downtown if you didn&#8217;t use GPS? Do you find yourself struggling to read a book for more than five minutes without checking your phone? Would you have trouble writing a grammatically-correct email without Google&#8217;s auto-suggested corrections?<\/p>\n<p>Do moments where you run up against your dependence on modern technology get you wondering about the ways some of your personal capabilities seem to be atrophying?<\/p>\n<p>Graham Lee has spent years thinking about this idea. While he&#8217;s a digital skills educator who appreciates the way technology can enhance our abilities, he worries that our ever-increasing reliance on algorithms and artificial intelligence may be robbing us of elements that are vital to the core of who we are.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46kYKhP\"><em>Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We\u2019re Losing to Technology<\/em><\/a>, and today on the show, we talk about some of those dozen endangered skills, including navigation, reading, writing, craftsmanship, and solitude. 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