Michael Regilio
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2,071 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
Michael Regilio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, you could hear, I remember being out in the yard and you could hear the phone ringing.
But another criticism, other than Mark Twain's that had a little merit, was the idea that disembodied voices strip conversation of empathy and nuance, which is actually pretty undeniable.
Language experts will tell you that body language and microexpressions are a huge part of communication.
And that is exactly one of the criticisms experts now have about screens.
Yeah.
And those concerns were echoes from generations earlier about the printing press.
Back then, critics argued that putting knowledge on paper itself would weaken the mind.
You can find that complaint in texts from the 15th and 16th century.
Oh, yeah.
We're absolutely going to get into that in about half a second.
But I'll just point out that complaining about printed text is the 15th century version of complaining about the Internet on the Internet.
Yeah.
And you got it exactly right.
And that person you're thinking of was none other than Socrates.
Centuries earlier, he made the same complaint about writing itself.
He warned that it would create the appearance of wisdom without the reality.
Socrates never wrote down a single word.
If it wasn't for that pesky Plato writing down everything he said, Socrates would never have made it into Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
And then no one from my generation would have ever have heard of him.
Come on, it's too quick.
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