Sep 28, 2026 · 37 min · 10 segments
What have we gained from technology, and what have we lost? In this month’s episode, Dad and I look back at the arrival of electricity, the telephone, TV and other technologies that transformed…
David JetmoreGuest
Kate JetmoreHost
You know, I thought about this question and it's, you know, my answer might surprise you because it's not, you know, some of the flashier things like cell phones or You know, the thing that I think I would choose are televisions.
And, you know, there's nobody a lot – televisions are so ubiquitous, I think it's hard for younger people to realize that there was a time when there was no television.
But I lived through the advent of television, and I think it changed the way people interacted.
I was thinking the other day, I was over on 12th Street working on an old house and I noticed that most of these houses have a front porch.
And the one thing all these front porches have in common is there's nobody on them.
There's nobody There's porch swings on them and chairs, but there's nobody on those chairs.
But before that television came along, people, especially in the evening, in the heat of the summer after the day began to cool down, they would sit on those porches and talk to each other.
And the people that walked down the street, they would walk up to the porch and talk to the people on the porch.
You know, I thought about this question and it's, you know, my answer might surprise you because it's not, you know, some of the flashier things like cell phones or You know, the thing that I think I would choose are televisions.
And, you know, there's nobody a lot – televisions are so ubiquitous, I think it's hard for younger people to realize that there was a time when there was no television.
But I lived through the advent of television, and I think it changed the way people interacted.
I was thinking the other day, I was over on 12th Street working on an old house and I noticed that most of these houses have a front porch.
And the one thing all these front porches have in common is there's nobody on them.
There's nobody There's porch swings on them and chairs, but there's nobody on those chairs.
But before that television came along, people, especially in the evening, in the heat of the summer after the day began to cool down, they would sit on those porches and talk to each other.
And the people that walked down the street, they would walk up to the porch and talk to the people on the porch.
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