Technology is Making Legends Real

Ben, Matt, and Noel love folklore. After all, stories are one of humanity's first technologies -- and they continue to shape the world today. Most of the modern world accepts that tales of the undead, spirits, oracles and so on are just that: stories. Yet as the guys discover in tonight's trippy thought experiment, there's a growing argument that modern technological breakthroughs aren't just leading to new advancements: when you think about it, technology is increasingly making some of these legends, in practice, real. They don't want you to read our book.:

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Technology is Making Legends Real is an episode from Stuff They Don't Want You To Know by iHeartPodcasts.

This episode is 77:57 long.

This episode was published on Apr 8, 2026.

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