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A Point of View: The Florida Phone Call

28/02/2020

The Florida Phone Call

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Adam Gopnik reflects on why Tik-Tok will never be his thing.

Adam Gopnik muses on age, intergenerational relationships and technology.

Adam Gopnik on the intricacies of the generation gap. 

It's highlighted, Adam argues, by what he calls the ‘Florida Phone Call’ - the call you get from your children ‘announcing that not only are you no longer fully competent to grasp contemporary life and its technology...but there is no longer any chance that you will grasp contemporary life and its technology!’ 

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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