CNN Kara Swisher’s Wants To Live Forever _ Interviewed on Episode 3 “How To Hack Loneliness” (May 9, 2026)

Neil Postman was the greatest media analyst of the late 20th century, showing us how new technologies—from the printing press through television and the early internet—brought about changes to so many life domains, and to consciousness itself.

Technologists say chatbots are a remedy for the loneliness epidemic, but looking to an algorithm for companionship can be dangerous.