“Kay Redden, founder and operator of Seattle cassette-tape label Den Tapes, likens the choice to interact with physical media to shopping local, given the increasingly competitive attention economy of today: “It’s kind of like voting with your dollar, like when you’re opting to support a local business rather than go to Home Depot or whatever.” In this way, devoting time to the making or consuming of physical art can be seen as a net positive in the war over our time and data points—each non-technological activity we participate in has become an act of micro-revolution.”
each non-technological activity we participate in has become an act of micro-revolution.
Not to be a nitpicker but… Tapes and tape decks are technology? Just like… 50 year old tech? In the scheme of the history of human technology that’s a blip. Not using technology would be like sitting in the grass staring at the clouds. Written language is technology, books are technology, and so on. They’re just early, simple human tech but they are still tech.
