Book tips - Analog
Analog
What comes after the digital revolution, when everything measurable has turned into zeros and ones? Are we at the beginning of a post-digital age? Are we experiencing a renaissance of the analog? The pendulum swings one way, then the other. Materialism was followed by post-materialism. Postfactual politics puts Enlightenment values to the test. It also resonates with a turning away from the ideals of the parents' generation. Ultimately, however, very few people want to turn back the clock completely and do without technological achievements. It is important to use the practical aspects of the digital world and rediscover the qualities of the analog world - for example, the smell of fresh food at the market, the haptic experience of a newspaper or direct human encounters as a supplement to technically mediated communication.
"People are like records: they can only get by if they are well recorded. " -Ursula Herking
Source: E-3 Magazine - May 2017 issue
The Revenge of the Analog
A passionate plea for the real things in life. Something peculiar is happening on the road to digital utopia: We are once again developing a weakness for analog products and ideas, whose obsolescence the tech gurus had conjured up. Industries that recently seemed old-fashioned - from record production to the bookstore around the corner - are now more in demand than ever. The revenge of the analog is here.
Analog is the new bio
Author Andre Wilkens writes about our digital everyday life. In an unconventional and very personal way, he analyzes and explains how the digital age has changed our lives and thinking and how the digital revolution will continue in the coming years if development continues unchecked. What influence will this development have on our social interaction, on the economy, on nation states?
Be a little analog
A bus stop, eight people, seven looking at their smartphones. Two people in love, two iPhones, I'm looking at my phone, baby! A cyclist, a cell phone, a car... What has happened to our lives? Do we even notice the real things around us anymore? Or are we digitally driven in a parallel world? Here, Julius Hendricks explains to us why it's so important to cheat the daily digital madness.
How to update your absurdly analog parents
Luis is in hell! After his father attends a parenting course, he announces a computer-, TV- and Internet-free time-out in which "the family is supposed to get closer together". Horror, a week of stone age! But the worst is yet to come: the whole school thinks he's a liar because he told everyone about his comedy TV appearance. He couldn't have known that his contribution, of all things, would be cut out. How can you not lose your sense of humor?
When we still went to the sea for surfing
Daydreaming, being surprised, being alone? The Internet has made our lives more exciting, more colorful, faster, but we have also lost a lot. Boris Hänßler tells us how everyday life has changed dramatically in a short time. And he boldly dares to ask whether the renaissance of record stores and bookstores might not indicate that there is a new desire for the real, for the unplanned and for times of inaccessibility.
