Alan Davies
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Now we're sliding into what some call a new orality.
Screens, feeds, voice notes, videos, memes.
I keep every shiny invention, but I delete the text.
Now, technically, code is writing and music is writing.
I'm erasing only one thing, our ability to write words to convey meaning.
We are one week in and chaos reigns supreme.
Dominic, can you take me on a tour of the institutions we rely on every day?
Writing allows institutions to operate at this massive scale.
So if power is forced to become local again, does that create more freedom or does it leave us vulnerable?
Now, Dominic, for thousands of years, we've been outsourcing our brains onto clay tablets or filing cabinets.
and lately the glowing rectangle in our pockets.
My phone has got access to about 20,000 photographs.
If you want to know what I was doing on December 10th, 2018, I can find out.
A week without writing and every we'll sort it out later task becomes we can't sort it out at all and we're all a bit stranded without our old calendar.