One night I dreamed that Facebook’s servers crashed and no one could log into their profile anymore. People walked around in their apartments and behaved like junkies with withdrawal syndromes. In the end, people began making analog versions of Facebook. They went out on the town and asked people if they could become friends, they started real events and printed T-shirts with their statuses on:
"Walking around town with my status on a T-shirt"
"Waiting for better times"
"Wondering what to eat for dinner."
We have this image of aliens coming to earth and wanting to fight with digital weapons and highly automated spacecraft. But what if they are entirely analog when they come? What if they destroy our weapons systems with adhesive and rubber bands? Recording everything on a tape recorder? Making Molotov cocktails and throwing them at the Pentagon?
1. Take one thing that is typically digital.
2. Think about how you can do it analog instead.
3. Do it.
More examples:
- Photograph with an analog camera, and print your pictures yourself.
- Cut and paste a logo instead of doing it in an illustration program.
- Call instead of sending an SMS.
Text: Navid Modiri
Required time:
1 hour or less
Cons:
It can be a bit more expensive and take longer to do things analogy.
Pros:
You get to work with your hands and what you do is for real, even if someone should happen to pull out your computer cord.
