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Since the beginning of time, human beings have been making tools to make life easier, better, faster or more efficient, but is that always a good thing? Are human beings happier today, whether individually or collectively, because of telephones, washing machines, text-messaging cell-phones, and iPods? Are there limitations on how much technology we should produce, or allow in our lives?

Guest

• Max Latona, Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College

Free speech allows us to say what we want, but it does have its limits. A new case being heard by the New Hampshire Supreme Court brings the First Amendment to 2009; in question, whether media outlets can protect the identities of anonymous online commenters. It’s a case that with not only bring the First Amendment to posting sites, blogs and citizen journalists, but also see where they fit in today’s media landscape. We’ll look at this case and what it may mean to the future of online posting.

Guests

• Sheldon Toplitt, Media Law Instructor at Boston University, Attorney, and Author of the blog The Unruly of Law
• Clint Hendler, staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review

Yesterday ten editors and publishers from Granite State papers met to discuss the challenges of keeping newspapers competitive and profitable in the age of web and social media. We'll talk with some of the panelists about what they learned and what the newspaper of tomorrow might look like.

Guests

• Mark Guerringue, publisher of the Daily Sun newspapers in Portland, Conway, Laconia and Berlin
Terry Williams, publisher of the Telegraph of Nashua
• Susan Hertz, director of the University of New Hampshire's journalism program

We'll also hear from

• Geordie Wilson, publisher of the Concord Monitor

The Exchange takes a break for a Veterans Day special from the producers of the Peabody Award-winning program "To The the Best of Our Knowledge.” "Boots on the Ground” examines the Iraq War through the stories, commentary and analysis of the men and women fighting there. We’ll hear from John Wroblewski Sr. who traveled to Iraq to see where his son, 2nd Lt. John "JT" Wroblewski, died on April 6, 2004, in Ramadi. We hear soldiers’ reactions to Helen Benedict's book "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq.". We’ll meet Sergeant 1st Class Toby Nunn, who, after two tours of duty in Iraq, works for Soldiers' Angels, a nonprofit that supports veterans and deployed military personnel and their families and Jonathan Pieslak is joined by Marines and soldiers to talk about their favorite combat songs.