Anxious Machine is a production of me. I'm Rob McGinley Myers, a podcast host/producer and editor as well as a writer, teacher, and former public radio producer. (And McGinley Myers is my last name, I'm not just trying to sound fancy.)

I also created and hosted the podcast Before It Had a Theme, which deconstructs old episodes of This American Life, and I've edited for and consulted with a number of shows, including The Sporkful, First Day Back, How to Be a Girl, Neighbors, Nocturne, Millenial, The Zoo, Welcome to Macintosh, and Edsurge.

Anxious Machine started as a show about the impact of technology on our everyday lives, but it has grown into a show about humans struggling with all the things that humans make, from cars and chemotherapy to handguns and birth certificates.

Some Episodes to Start with:

I Had No Instinct - a new mother grapples with the unnatural world of a neonatal intensive care unit

Inbox Time Machine - a daughter keeps in touch with her estranged father almost entirely over email

The Window Seat - an Egyptian man's relationship to air travel changes after he moves to the U.S.

Protect My Family - a father puts the life of his son in the hands of doctors

A few things I've written:

Placibo-philes - the benefits of the placibo effect in wine, audio, and alternative medicine

The Affordance of Intimacy - how the shape of a device changes what we do with it

Caught Like Insects in a Web - how the internet preserves and exposes only parts of our identities

Not Remembering Ourselves - ways technology can make us more human

Artificial Communication - what the movie Her says about our relationship to technology

Better Living (and Less Anxiety) through Software - how I got interested in technology, and how it made me less anxious

Contact:

Twitter: @robmcmyers

Email: anxiousmail@gmail.com