Quick Dish NY: TONIGHT Get Your FUNNY as TECH on at The Peoples Improv Theater

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There couldn’t be a better evening to enjoy the the wonders of technology. While many of you will be using the most low tech tools to check out the eclipse, you can learn about the slightly more evolved ones TONIGHT at the Funny as Tech panel show. At TONIGHT’s podcast taping at The PIT NY, co-hosts David Ryan Polgar, the tech guy, and Joe Leonardo, the comedian, will invite a diverse range of guests to explore tech laden concepts that hopefully promise us a bright future. TONIGHT’s guests will include:

CNN’s LAURIE SEGALL (senior technology correspondent for CNN and editor-at-large for CNN Tech) who covers the intersection of technology and culture and is the host of CNN’s first CNNgo original, Mostly Human with Laurie Segall.

Human Journalist JOHN C. HAVENS, author of Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines and Hacking H(app)iness — Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change The World and founder of The H(app)athon Project, a non-profit that uses emerging technology and positive psychology to increase human wellbeing.

GEORGIA FRANCES KING, Ideas Editor at Quartz, where she delivers op-eds on futuristic technology. She was assistant editor of Australia’s Frankie magazine and spent three years as the editor of Kinfolk magazine. During this time she edited the New York Times-best seller, The Kinfolk Home.

Our love affair with technology has always been complicated, so why not plunge the depths of this ever captivating romance. Don’t miss Funny as Tech TONIGHT!

Mentions: Show 8pm. Buy tix HERE! The PIT NY (The Striker) is located at 123 E 24th St NYC, 10010. Listen to episodes of the podcast at www.funnyastech.com.