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The Realignment

315 | David Sax: The Over-Hyped Digital World and Why Our Future Is Analog

The Realignment

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

David Sax, author of The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World and The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, joins The Realignment to discuss why early-COVID promises of digital transformation were over-hyped in work, commerce, health/fitness, and our personal lives and what a proper balance of analog and digital experiences looks like.

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0:00.0

Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

0:08.4

To announce Vince before we get into this episode, number one would love for everyone to, of course,

0:14.1

check out the Realignment's super cast account, tell from the show, and considering it's the holiday

0:20.4

season, we're into the period we need to plan for next year, so all support is deeply appreciated.

0:26.7

Number two, and I think definitely a little more exciting, especially for Realignment

0:30.0

Super fans. We are going to be hosting a Realignment conference called Realignment Live,

0:35.6

Washington DC on January 25th, 2023. There is a link in the show notes where you can get early

0:42.4

bird tickets. Lots of interesting conversations are going to happen. They're going to be focused on

0:46.0

this theme of what does the future of the American right look like. Looking back to the Real

0:52.0

Limers first episodes when soccer I spoke with JD Vance, newly elected US Senator, and George

0:57.4

Will. We've had this ever-present theme of the rights future being at the center of the political

1:02.4

realignment. This country's going through cell. Continue to check this space for more details,

1:07.0

but there is a link if you didn't for sure know you would like to attend the event in DC

1:11.8

would love to see as many of you as possible there. On to today's episode today's episode,

1:17.4

definitely sticks with the theme of the holiday week and the holiday season. If there's ever a

1:22.4

week where one is going to want to be in person with your family, with your friends focused on

1:26.7

the community, it's definitely this one. The book then is by author David Sachs, not David Sachs

1:33.4

of the All in Podcast, but David Sachs SAX. It's a different David to make sure that there wasn't

1:39.2

any actual typo there. The book is called The Future is Analog. How to create a more human world.

1:45.9

It's a really interesting book to think about in the context of the past two years. When COVID

1:51.0

started, everything went digitally instantly from Powaton to Zoom to Remote Work to this idea that

1:58.1

we're going to even transition into more of a metaverse style world topic that I've covered on

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