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Welcome to the verge casts, the flagship podcasts of the second screen experience.

I'm your friend David Pierce and this is the first episode in a new mini series we're doing about connectivity.

But I don't mean connectivity in the like 5G will change everything since or the let's test some Wi-Fi speeds since either.

Those are fine, but that's not what we're talking about.

For the next four Mondays, we're going to talk about how we connect online, how we connect to each other,

how we connect to the stuff that we care about, how we make connections that are private and personal and safe and make sense.

It's a big digital universe out there and connecting all of it and us is hard, but important work.

For our first episode, we're going to talk about content.

Obviously the internet completely changed the way that we watched, listened, read and everything else.

Really, it wasn't that long ago that the only way to access something was to get in your car and go to a store and buy it.

Now the whole universe of content is available from your phone.

You don't even have to get up off the couch.

But that has its own set of challenges.

We're all signed up for a million increasingly expensive subscriptions.

We spend way too much time scrolling through streaming services instead of actually watching the content on them.

You're stuck upgrading your TV, your phone, your everything every couple of years just to keep up with it all.

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