Technology and Human Relationships

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 31, 2020

Even before the pandemic lockdowns made technology a primary means of interacting with colleagues, friends and family, technology was changing the way we conduct our personal lives.  Debora L. Spar, senior associate dean of Harvard Business School Online, former president of Barnard College and of Lincoln Center, and the author of Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020),  talks about what her research shows about where we're going as these trends continue.

 

 

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