The impact of the pandemic was a revelation and nobody wants to go back. The future's still going to be digital because that's what they're selling me, right? Like Zuckerberg saying, I'm going to wear my VR goggles and this is the future. We need to look critically at what happened to our lives when we made everything digital.
“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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