The idea of embodied cognition is to put it simply the understanding you get about ideas by moving through and sharing physical space with others. In an architecture studio, day to day working on this big complex project which has thousands and thousands of pieces and components,. It's like a massive Lego project. Now everybody can do their individual jobs through software. But he said, when you're walking through an office, you know, you walk by Caleb's desk and you walk by Rufus desk and you walk by Sarit's desk andyou walk by Jenny's desk.
“The future is digital,” they said. Then the pandemic came along and forced that digital future on us. We traded offices for Zooms, gyms for Pelotons, schools for YouTube videos, restaurants for takeout apps. And guess what? It sucked. Many of us longed for face-to-face interactions and real-world experiences, none more so than David Sax, whose new book, “The Future Is Analog,” urges us to stop fantasizing about technological possibilities and start focusing on what we actually need, because it turns out that what a lot of us need is decidedly low-tech.
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