Sep 9, 2026 · 23 min · 11 segments
What happens when you turn the microphone around on the host? In this special episode of The Travel Disruptor, Producer Jeff Streck interviews Host…
Dylan LallHost
Jeff StreckHost
Technology is basically what I believe are things that have taken humanity to the next level.

Vehicles, right? Moving from horses pulling carts to going to cars, that is a technology shift, right? Going from telegraph to telephone...

There was also like a building full of humans that would calculate ledgers, you know, mathematically with numbers and stuff.

Until a spreadsheet or when the calculator got released, you know, then you didn't need all those humans.

However, I think what we do as as people is we don't look at the effects from the causes.

So we say, OK, all these people, they got replaced by the spreadsheet or the calculator.

I think there is a there's a second, third order effect, which is basically, OK, those humans that are not required for the task.

Where have they shifted to in in the economy? Those calculators, they still exist, but they are now doing different things as part of the accounting workflows.

Like there's a story, I think, once upon a time in the States, around the world, really, when there were switchboards, there were people in these buildings.

And if somebody wanted to call someone, you know, one part of the city, let's say outside of another city, somebody would basically connect the wires, you know, the switchboard attendants, they would, I think that's what they were called.

And so there was a piece of technology that was like a switch, which basically would mean that that person that was connecting the two callers via some wiring mechanism, that switch would automatically do it itself.

So then, you know, everyone goes up in arms, you know, oh, my God, they're going to lose all their jobs.

Technology is basically what I believe are things that have taken humanity to the next level.

Vehicles, right? Moving from horses pulling carts to going to cars, that is a technology shift, right? Going from telegraph to telephone...

There was also like a building full of humans that would calculate ledgers, you know, mathematically with numbers and stuff.

Until a spreadsheet or when the calculator got released, you know, then you didn't need all those humans.

However, I think what we do as as people is we don't look at the effects from the causes.

So we say, OK, all these people, they got replaced by the spreadsheet or the calculator.

I think there is a there's a second, third order effect, which is basically, OK, those humans that are not required for the task.

Where have they shifted to in in the economy? Those calculators, they still exist, but they are now doing different things as part of the accounting workflows.

Like there's a story, I think, once upon a time in the States, around the world, really, when there were switchboards, there were people in these buildings.

And if somebody wanted to call someone, you know, one part of the city, let's say outside of another city, somebody would basically connect the wires, you know, the switchboard attendants, they would, I think that's what they were called.

And so there was a piece of technology that was like a switch, which basically would mean that that person that was connecting the two callers via some wiring mechanism, that switch would automatically do it itself.

So then, you know, everyone goes up in arms, you know, oh, my God, they're going to lose all their jobs.
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