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In a world of endless content, The Analog Hour offers focused, meaningful conversations about media literacy, human connection, and finding our way back to each other.
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Digital Dementia: When AI Becomes the Only Voice in the Room (opens the original)
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Dean Cooper is an IT executive who uses conversational AI in both his professional and personal life every day. As someone who is neurodivergent, he calls it a lifeline. In this conversation, Dean introduces the concept digital dementia : the idea that we're outsourcing so much of our thinking to AI that we're forgetting how to do the things we once knew. He asks whether we're using AI as a bridge to bring us closer to others, or if we are burning it down because the other side feels too hard. M
The Toothpaste Test: Why Real Connection Starts With the Small Stuff (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, we talk to Lorii Abela, a luxury private matchmaker. Her clients have excelled in almost every aspect of their lives (careers, companies, wealth) and they hire her to help with the one thing that still eludes them: love. She shares what she's seen change over 14 years of matchmaking: how dating has shifted from real conversation to texting and swiping, how the illusion of endless options is making connection harder rather than easier, and what she discovers underneath the
The Problem With Work: We Designed the Loneliness In (opens the original)
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This week, our conversation goes somewhere we haven't been yet: the office. It can be a lonely place for many of us. One that we tend to blame on difficult bosses, disengaged co-workers, and a general lack of interpersonal skills, but what if it was in fact, a design problem? Alexandra Suchman, a self-described professional play-facilitator, has an idea of how to repair what's broken. She brings games into workplaces — and not the trust falls many of us are familiar with, her games offer somethi
The Death of Our Social Fabric, One Google at a Time (opens the original)
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Welcome to Season 2 of The Analog Hour. This week, we sit down with Julia Freeland Fisher to discuss AI and loneliness. She has spent over a decade at the Clayton Christensen Institute studying how relationships shape opportunity. Yet, lately her research has explored what happens when AI starts filling the role that humans used to. In this conversation, Julia draws a distinction between engagement and connection; explains why the outer ring of our networks (what she calls the "weak ties") may b
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