What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts)

by Stanley Tucci

Quite simply, I am drawn to the past more than I am the future. I don’t want to rocket (the engine-propelled kind) into space or live on another planet. I don’t want my phone to be able to do more than it already does or for my watch to tell me my heart rate or other people’s thoughts. I am analog. Not only do I want to be in touch with the moment as it unfolds without being made hyperaware of every aspect of it by some device but I also want to actually touch. I am physical, kinesthetic, tactile. Through touch, I take in information. Today what we predominately touch are the screens on our devices. This touch has practically eclipsed all others. In short, we have become less tactile, and in the future, we will become even less so. I don’t want that future. I don’t want that world. I don’t mind getting my hands dirty. I want to dig a hole in the earth and find the remains of something that was once something of importance, no matter how minor, to someone many years ago and imagine what their life was like.