Ian Bogost

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439 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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The Vergecast · The life-changing magic of touching stuff · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

You got to press the delete button on your keyboard.

And now it does kind of feel like, oh, even that, even the work I don't want to do is not going to be taken away from me.

One thing we know about automation of all kinds, going back as long as we've had automation, is we never get that time back.

We never get the leisure time that we're promised.

Instead, we just get more work.

That work that we get that's more is also usually worse.

It's usually worse effort.

And, you know, I'm not saying that we should go wash your clothes by hand, right?

This isn't the friction-maxing argument.

The fact that I have a washing machine, thank goodness.

I am happy with the washing machine.

But you still engage with it, right?

And you've got to load it up, and then it whirs, and you can hear it sort of in the house, and it's reminding you that washing is happening, and then you go out and you fold it and get the towels out like we were talking about.

And those processes, like all of that stuff...

we think is just like noise.

It's like, oh, that's just a chore that I want to get through.

So we didn't really mean for our lives to be changed in this way, optimized on every register for every variable.

And it happened slowly.

And now that it happened, I think all of us are looking around going, wait,

I didn't ask for that.

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