Welcome to Episode 67 of The Business Lockdown.

We are joined at the Round Table by Phil Pond. A Round table is a form of academic discussion. Participants agree on a specific topic to discuss and debate. This time, we look at the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. Are we destined for our lives to be taken over by tech or can we salvage what’s left of human connection?

In an age of tech domination, Zoom as a daily tool, Facebook as our means of social engagement and Google as our main source of knowledge, it is safe to say that tech is now an essential part of our biology.

Phil Pond, as a trends forecaster, uses technology against itself in his search for the truth, and tells us that the current state of the news and how we get the news is fundamentally flawed; if our hosts searched the same term, they would get three versions of the truth.

Phil Pond maintains that surely there can only be one version of the truth – but even this notion is called into question by the use of tracking and big data by companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook.

Join our discussion and let us know your thoughts as we digest this issue together – are we addicted to social media? Are you addicted to your phone? And, perhaps most importantly of all, Co-host James Ash asks: “Are We F*cked?”

Let us know in the comments if you’ve watched the programme. We’d love to hear your thoughts -

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View “The Social Dilemma” Trailer here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0&ab_channel=Netflix