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November 21, 2022: David Sax, author, "The Future is Analog"
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Today: David Sax, author, “The Future is Analog: How to Create a More Human World.”
• The Future Is Analog on Indiebound
• David’s first Techtonic appearance: May 14, 2018 discussing “The Revenge of Analog”
• David’s second Techtonic appearance: April 13, 2020 discussing “The Soul of an Entrepreneur”
• saxdavid.com: Author site
• From “Mark Has Surrounded Himself With Sycophants”: Zuckerberg’s Big Bet On The Metaverse Is Backfiring (by Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair, Nov 16, 2022):
The problem is—as everyone surmised at the time and still does today—no one wants to live in the metaverse. They don’t want to go to meetings in a virtual coffee shop on the moon; they don’t want to go on dates dressed as a digital porcupine on a virtual beach with a pink ocean; and they don’t want to exercise in a virtual outdoor space with their friends who live down the block.
If the pandemic taught us anything, it was that technology enables us to connect when we have no other way to reach people, but in reality, in-person connections are way more impactful and important than a digital genus. People want to experience real things now more than ever and—most importantly—they want to experience real people.
. . . “The problem now is that Mark has surrounded himself with sycophants, and for some reason he’s fallen for their vision of the future, which no one else is interested in,” the former Facebook executive told me. “In a previous era, someone would have been able to reason with Mark about the company’s direction, but that is no longer the case.”
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Cabin Fever in Space
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Listener comments!
David in London:
ultradamno:
Wendy del Formaggio:
DanFA:
herb.nyc:
Wind:
Rolando:
Handy Haversack:
(Murakami Whywolf))):
I like the natural world too, but I want the option to retreat from it right quick.
wenzo toad:
Karl Ward:
Karl Ward:
DanFA:
chresti:
Glistener MW:
TDK60:
Analog Nights:
listener James from Westwood:
Old Dave:
melinda:
Webhamster Henry:
Anna Log:
(((Murakami Whywolf):
The Count of Al Dente:
melinda:
DanFA:
Carmichael:
Bas NL:
The Count of Al Dente:
PaulRobeson1922:
Cooh John:
TDK60:
Juli:
Mark Hurst:
Juli:
Mark Hurst:
Dean:
Folsom:
ultradamno:
Juli:
Music always I want to play everything by hand lol like amps and bells and everything to tape tbh then to computer to edit lol
I like playing w others so much too and vinyl and tape sound so great: sound: anyway yes analog everything
ultradamno:
disco_nap_:
Bas NL:
(Murakami Whywolf))):
It just occurred to me, as it should have done years ago, that the people who want this universe to be a machine-simulation, in the backs of their minds, want this as a way of restoring classical physics to fundamental reality, so they can explain-away quantum effects as just weirdness induced by the non-zero granularity and time-lapse between steps of the simulation.
Mark Hurst:
disco_nap_:
Wendy del Formaggio:
And "A Paradise Built in Hell" by Rebecca Solnit. www.rebeccasolnit.net...
Will thee Sound Guy:
Folsom:
ultradamno:
DjLorraine:
MarciB:
PaulRobeson1922:
Jackie G:
PaulRobeson1922:
Dean:
Rolando:
PaulRobeson1922:
Dean:
disco_nap_:
MarciB:
Jackie G:
Juli:
But we need the physical realm much much much much mcuh infinity more
Wendy del Formaggio:
Bas NL:
Juli:
Do not like.
Lol that is exactly what he did.
TDK60:
ultradamno:
HyperDose:
Juli:
I need a f ton
Dean:
https://www.routledge.com/Times-of-the-Technoculture-From-the-Information-Society-to-the-Virtual/Robins-Webster/p/book/9780415161169
Look at the publication date: 1999.
Jeff Moore:
It was uncomfortable and annoying out there, partly because of the bugs and dirt, but largely because there were other children out there, and They Are Often Uncivilized Monsters.
I wasn't addicted to screens, tho – it wasn't that time – I just wanted to get back to the bliss of reading books.
Carmichael:
Dean:
PaulRobeson1922:
The promotion of one deity, even a technological one, requires the trivialization of all others
MarciB:
Pax:
PaulRobeson1922:
Mark Hurst:
New Guy:
At all
Mark Hurst:
The Count of Al Dente:
TimSF:
great interview; thank you Mark.
herb.nyc:
(((Murakami Whywolf):
The same here. Buried in my usual over-verbiage, my original point is that there are many varieties of human being, and making nature walks and socialising The Only Right Way to Be doesn't sit well with all of us.
tim from washington:
Sam:
PaulRobeson1922:
2/3 will never attend
(valid statistic as of 2014)
New Guy:
Mark Hurst:
Jackie G:
Mark Hurst:
Pax:
Miss G:
Miss G:
Jackie G:
Dean:
Handy Haversack:
New Guy:
Mark Hurst:
ultradamno:
kla:
New Guy:
By design of course. That part of it isn't sad, it's evil at work.
Rolando:
Dean:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-irony-of-regulatory-reform-9780195069990
Hurwitz explores the history of the regulation of telecommunications, which obviously implicates Wall Street.
HyperDose:
Miss G:
Sam:
Miss G:
Dean:
HyperDose:
Jeff Moore:
Yes! There are those of us for whom The Healthy Hike or while young Roughhousing With The Other Kids hold no appeal at all.
Yeah, I feel better after taking an occasional stroll to break up an overly-sedentary day, but to me the purposeful activity of hiking some trail in the woods is purely a chore one sometimes gets roped into through peer pressure rather than something I'd actually look forward to and do on purpose. I'm trying to remember having been on a hike without spending most of the time wondering when it would be over.
Wendy del Formaggio:
The Count of Al Dente:
ultradamno:
castor:
PaulRobeson1922:
HyperDose:
New Guy:
[ honk ]
PaulRobeson1922:
Folsom:
Pax:
Dean:
Wendy del Formaggio:
castor:
MarciB:
Juli:
ultradamno:
Miss G:
melinda:
Jackie G:
Pax:
PaulRobeson1922:
Sam:
Handy Haversack:
chris in the redwoods:
Dean:
ultradamno:
Elena:
Sam:
Fredericks:
TDK60:
lazy pierogi:
joe mulligan:
lazy pierogi:
Jeff Moore:
Cool! I'm glad you had that experience, beautifully matched with your enjoyments!
Annette:
Miss G:
Thank you David Sax and thank you Mark Hurst!
Jeff Moore:
not a good band.
HyperDose:
MarciB:
Wendy del Formaggio:
disco_nap_:
MarciB:
Wind:
Anna Log:
Thanks, analog Mark.
joe mulligan:
Handy Haversack:
chresti:
PaulRobeson1922:
Bas NL:
yippie:
Pax:
Jackie G:
listener 126464:
Juli:
Hansie:
PaulRobeson1922:
Thanks, Mark! Tellin’ it like it is
New Guy:
chris in the redwoods:
Will thee Sound Guy:
be well everyone!!!
MarciB:
Mark Hurst:
Miss G: