Ian Bogost
speaker
439 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Ian Bogost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I have a flight tomorrow.
I'm not going to get a boarding pass on paper.
I'm just going to scan it on my watch or my smartphone.
When I'm at the airport and I go into the restroom, I won't probably touch the faucet or the towel dispenser because there'll be sensors there.
I don't start my car, I push a button.
I don't close the hatch, I push a button.
You kind of can't touch products in stores.
anymore, partly because maybe you'd rather buy them online and partly because maybe the stores and the products don't exist.
A lot of times a restaurant menu is just a scannable code now.
And a lot of those changes, they are useful and convenient, but they have removed that opportunity just for sensory engagement with the world.
It's exactly what I'm talking about, yeah.
And that feeling of opening up a record, of unfolding it, of carefully pulling out the vinyl, or even a CD for that matter, or a cassette, doesn't matter what the format is.
of having that kind of smell.
Remember the smell of cassette tape liners or CD liners?
That sort of earthy, like, petrichor kind of smell.
All of that's gone.
And, you know, many people don't even know that it's gone.
They don't remember those things, and so they don't know what they've lost.
But it's also not just something to be nostalgic about, right?
Like, that's not the answer, is, oh, we need to kind of go back to, like, analog culture, because we kind of can't go back.
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