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Okay. On to the show. One of my favorite insults I've seen bubble up in the past few years is

telling someone to touch grass. It's what you say to someone

who's going down a weird line of thinking that obviously comes from spending too much time online.

And, you know, I'll be real here, have to tell myself to touch grass all the time. I thought about

that as I was listening to today's interview. It's with writer David Sacks, whose new book,

The Future is Analog, is an argument, or maybe a warning, that we shouldn't be looking to

technology to point towards what our possible future will look like. Because, as he says,

connections made digitally are inherently weaker than ones made in real life. And when he lays this out to

NPR's Aisha Roscoe, he doesn't sound like some sort of naysayanglottite. He just sounds human.

In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life. Distant wars, murky

conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors. On our new show, Sources and Methods.

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