Chapter 1: What happens when a remote tribe gets internet for the first time?
Every now and then, you see photos come out showing a remote tribe deep in the rainforest that's been shielded from modern civilization for like hundreds of years.
And you just think, why can't I be part of them? Sounds so good to me. I'm always like, how do they approach those people?
They always see the helicopter fly over and they start throwing the spears up at them.
Yeah, because they don't know about technology. Dude, no bras. Like, I am here for it. I see, Brooke. You know what I mean?
It does kind of make you wonder, though, what would happen if those people were introduced to modern-day technology?
Like they just jumped a couple hundred years and ended up here?
How would that go? We don't have to wonder anymore because a social experiment is happening right now where for the last eight months, an indigenous Brazilian tribe called the Marubo people have been getting high-speed internet in their village for the first time ever.
Wow.
they were gifted a bunch of cell phones and computers and a satellite link attached to a post allowing them access to the web and all of the wonders that it holds dude that's crazy literate or like how does that even you have to picture they live in one of the most isolated places on the planet thousands of miles away from any major city they sleep in communal straw huts they hunt and grow their own food they have bones through their noses it's that type of community
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Chapter 2: How did the Marubo tribe adapt to modern technology?
Boring!
So they asked a 73-year-old villager if the change has been positive overall. And the old woman said, quote, when it first arrived, everyone was so happy. But now things have gotten much worse. All the young people have become so lazy.
It's terrible.
Even the old people in the Amazon are frustrated with technology.
It makes sense. It totally does. It's ruining our lives.
Well, clearly there's some pros and cons to it. Let's start with the pros that the tribe's people say they like about the internet. Number one, the ability to chat with loved ones who live far away.
Yeah, for sure.
So they figured out Facebook. That's good. Number two thing that they like is access to educational opportunities.
That is true. There is so many different educational games.
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Chapter 3: What were the initial reactions of the Marubo people to the internet?
Yeah. Yeah, that's going to be it. That's going to be a problem. Yeah, that is. Wait, you can do that with your legs?
Apparently, after watching those, the young men in the tribe got hooked and weren't as romantic as they used to be.
Which may or may not be a relief to the women in the tribe. You don't ask them if they were happy about that.
Despite all the new problems, most tribes people that spoke to the researchers said that they had no desire to take the internet away.
They want to keep it.
Plus, on the bright side, four different women from that tribe have matched with Jose on Tinder. So, the love is coming to the village, too. But the leader of the Marubos says, I think the internet will bring us much more benefits than harm. Dot, dot, dot, at least for now.
By the way, if you're a Marubo villager listening to our show on podcast, make sure to follow us on TikTok at Brooke and Jeffrey and go buy a Brooke and Jeffrey t-shirt at the brookandjeffrey.com store.
Do we deliver there? No, we can't.
We'll figure it out.
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