Since its invention more than 150 years ago, the microphone transformed the world in an instant. In the 21st century, every phone has a microphone. Every laptop has a microphone. Everyone with a microphone has a podcast. The microphone wields enormous power. But when we're ‘on mic’ we aren't just powerful, we're vulnerable. Microphones can destroy careers as quickly as make them. Microphone takes a curious, always humorous look at this metaphor for power and how the fulfillment of this need to be heard has created a multi-headed beast we are still learning how to tame.

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