{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"DESIGN NOW: Cultural Collisions","title":"The Terrifying Necessity of the Hand","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3301,"description":"7 AM, Saturday, August 1, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org\nArtificial Intelligence is the latest Kill Shot to our Analog Humanity. We let the electrons do the walking (and thinking) as we scroll through the Black Hole of perception. First computer digitization made drawings electricity, without dimensional media. The Internet then suffocated the hand-to-heart-thru-mind of writing. Now, all we hear, see, even think has a bull’s eye on it: A Greater Mind is paralleling every analog reality and instantly transforming it into Artificially Intelligent “information”\nAs long as we have electric power, we are in the Matrix/Borg/Hive of Us: No fingers, eyeballs, ears need apply in the Screen-Centered Life.\nBut even keyboards use fingers: mics hear voices, screens use eyes: We are not Cyber – We are Corporeal. We may create in our minds, but we cannot touch beauty without touch. Creators that live the joy of manifestation, not the validation of of technological Fit. Three brilliant creators are living in the tactile, sensorial, interactive humanity of physical creation in the world that is careening into dehumanization.\nTechnology’s clay feet of distortional dehumanization can be ignored, cursed, or we can just live the gifts we have been given: the senses, feelings, joys of the world we live in; the physical reality Artificial Intelligence tries to distill into data: DESIGN NOW! has three creators who do not chase “cutting edge” but bathe in the Here And Now:\nOn the media they bypass, see the work of their hands, eyes, hearts, minds:\nThe architect Jeremiah Eck writes, teaches and builds buildings: and he dedicates weekly time to devotional painting\nhttps://eckmacneelyarchitects.com/jeremiah-eck-paintings/\nMichael Imber is an architect who swims in living history: but he also devotes days of his weeks to watercoloring life\nhttps://www.michaelgimber.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/szgB95-9kPVNh_zS6FHyChtAHi-IrV3nAnj1oRBKYT4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xZTJi/ZGViZGJkYWZjYjJl/ZTg5YWRiNjljNWRj/ZTc3OS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}