What bet­ter way to punc­tu­ate an episode deal­ing with society’s reliance on tech­nol­ogy than with a bar­rage of com­puter crashes that are a resid­ual result of Trip’s com­puter prob­lems that he had in [Unti­tled Episode 5](http://theyettobenamedpodcast.com/2010/02/untitled-episode-5/)? None. None bet­ter way, really. **In this episode:** A dis­cus­sion about tech­nol­ogy brought on by an [arti­cle](http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_24/b4182000596077.htm?chan=rss_topDiscussed_ssi_5) the guys read about [Nicholas Carr](http://www.roughtype.com/index.php)‘s [new book](http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393072223), mul­ti­ple com­puter crashes, Trip inces­santly types try­ing to Google ways to keep his com­puter from crash­ing again, Jeremy gets all [Mer­lin Mann](http://merlinmann.com)–ish about the sub­ject at hand, tools vs. nov­el­ties, Trip\$ha.