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Hey everyone, the tech world has never been in such a weird place as it is today.
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Everything is just split down the middle.
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Smartphones have kind of hit their peak, AI is the only thing brands want to talk about.
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We're starting to romanticize physical media, old technology, old devices, when things used to be fun and unique and exciting and different and weird,
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when things had personality, and when technology wasn't constantly being pushed to us all the time.
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And as a result of this, people are starting to go back.
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Right now we're seeing the biggest rejection of new technology that I've seen in pretty much my entire life.
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And obviously I've been really excited about seeing new tech and seeing new things,
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but there obviously is a fatigue element that comes into play as well.
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And it's not just people being sick of AI constantly being pushed into our lives all the time.
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It's sort of a rejection of modernity itself.
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It's a mix of wanting to be different, embracing nostalgia, longing for the past, and the funny thing is,
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a lot of people who actually are buying these older devices these days never really even grew up with them either.
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There's like a lot of young people who are just done with Spotify, for example, and are buying their first CD players or their first iPods,
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which is honestly pretty cool.
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Now, the iPod point I totally get, and it makes me very happy as well seeing people appreciate iPods again.
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I made a video almost four years ago now about why I still use an iPod here
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and there to detach from my phone, support artists directly, and I just enjoy the design,
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the experience, and the overall feeling that the iPod gives me when I use it.
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And other people are starting to appreciate that as well right now, which is truly amazing.
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It's honestly so special, and maybe it's just a trend right now, but people are buying up older iPods, loading them with their libraries,
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modding them with Bluetooth, USB -C, AirTags, everything.
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And further proof that people are actually longing for
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and embracing older technology is the fact that brands are producing modern day versions of old devices.
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Brands are noticing this love for retro technology and older products
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and of course they're going to capitalize on it and make new products based on old products.
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There's like modern iPod dupes with Bluetooth, USB -C, weird
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Android touchscreen iPod style devices.
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There's like a whole market out there just for stuff like this.
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Even like Fujifilm for example just dropped a brand new camera
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that really does rely on nostalgia and the love for actually taking photos and videos.
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And look, I know what you're going to say.
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Buying these like older devices or using old technology might seem kind of like performative, like pulling up to the coffee shop,
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getting a matcha, sitting there listening to CDs with your Koss headphones.
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Look, it does seem kind of performative, but at the same time,
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people just like want to feel unique and different and they want to enjoy something that feels special and kind of human.
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Maybe this is all a trend, but people are longing for something different.
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The concept of single -purpose devices is something I've been seeing a lot of as well.
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People taking their phone and separating all of the apps that they regularly use into different devices entirely.
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When the first iPhone came out, when the App Store came available, immediately people started to group all these devices into this one singular device.
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And since then, it's just been much more convenient.
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But people almost want to have like a daily bag of things they carry with them full of all these different devices
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And it's not to make their lives inconvenient or more annoying
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It's to really use our phones less myself included I use my phone way too much
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and i'm trying to separate that device into other entities as well
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Like I prefer to write in a notebook for my ideas.
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I prefer to have a physical calendar in my home
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I prefer to have different music listening devices throughout my home
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as well whether it's a record player cd player mp3 player I like the idea of having dedicated devices
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and places for the things that I do.
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Oh, and by the way, CDs are definitely back, and physical media entirely is kind of back as well.
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I've discovered so many artists just going to the thrift store and buying, like, a 20 -year -old CD that someone enjoyed once.
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Like, being able to actually own something these days, like, physically be able to pick it up and use it, that's art in my home.
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Like, I collect old technology, I collect CDs, records, tapes, magazines, books, they're all usable media, but they're also beautiful objects that inspire me.
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Especially now when everything is a subscription and you lose all of that the second you miss a payment,
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like being able to hold on to something is really nice.
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So physical media is back and it's amazing.
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Another thing I've been noticing is the growing trend of the love for imperfection.
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AI images, AI videos, AI writing, it's all just too perfect, too smooth, too glossy, and you can just tell that it's not real.
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And when you ask AI to make like an imperfect image or an imperfect video, it still looks in some ways too perfect or too staged.
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Yeah, you can prompt imperfection, but it'll never be real imperfection.
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Imperfection that comes with just being a human and not being perfect by any means.
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And that's why people are really embracing old phones and digicams for capturing photos and videos.
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By today's standards, these cameras are terrible.
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They're bad in low light, they're blurry, they're grainy, the colors aren't great, things are really muted, and people really don't care.
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There's just something real about all of that.
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And yes, of course it's all about the aesthetic.
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People love that retro digicam aesthetic, but what's the real reason?
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In a world where everything is perfect, imperfection is the only way that human work actually stands out.
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It's easy for AI to be flawless and perfect, like you can easily prompt a perfect looking image.
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What's hard for it is to feel alive and imperfect.
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Imperfect photos or videos are proof of life, proof that a human is actually behind the work.
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And the thing that hits me the most is seeing restaurants use AI photos for food.
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Like there's nothing worse than seeing an AI shwarma.
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It's just, it's not great.
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I would much rather see a terrible photo taken by the owner of a shop with his like seven -year -old
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Samsung phone of a plate of food then see this perfect ai image of food
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that isn't even like what the food is going to look like ai is literally making imperfection become a trend
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and yes using an older phone or an older camera
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or a film camera might seem performative and it might just be a current aesthetic trend,
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but there is obviously a real human truth beneath all of that.
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It also comes as a result of what photos look like from modern day phones, which are so over -processed and perfect.
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And I for one have to admit, it is great to get a perfect photo all the time.
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Like you just pull out your phone, take a photo, take a video, and it looks amazing.
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But sometimes you actually want to capture the authenticity of the moment and you don't have any control over that.
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Like take something like this iPhone 6, for example.
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The photos and videos aren't great.
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They're noisy, blown out, the dynamic range is not good, the colors are off, they're shaky, they're blurry, but there's something honest about them.
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When I compared the iPhone 17
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Pro camera to the original iPhone camera in a short video, it absolutely blew up,
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and people honestly appreciated the original iPhone photos more than the brand new iPhone that had just come out.
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And it's a mix of how warm those photos felt, how unsharpened, how unprocessed they were, how just like real and nostalgic they felt.
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And I didn't expect it at all because I was
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so excited about being able to take photos with a brand new iPhone as I do every single year.
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But as soon as I started to read the comments and understand, people are starting to shift their opinions on technology.
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This is my job.
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I've been doing this for a little over 10 years now as a serious full -time job,
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if you want to call it that and I love new technology.
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I love showing you new technology but there's certain things
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that are happening that I just don't really fully like or agree with.
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And I've talked about AI a lot in this video mostly in a negative way
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but I do use AI in my own life in some capacity to answer things, understand things, summarize things, reword things,
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learn how to do new things.
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It is a useful tool and it is useful in certain contexts,
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but the day I use it to replace all of my creative work is the day I just stop doing everything entirely.
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Because at that point, what's the point?
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I started making YouTube videos originally as a way to express myself
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and a creative outlet to just make something to share with people.
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And And since then, it's gone way beyond that original concept, but at the core of everything, I love what I do.
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I love making videos, I love taking photos, I love working with really exciting, cool brands, I love designing things.
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That's the whole fun of this job.
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And because I love this work so much, I've never and probably will never hire anybody to edit videos for me or edit thumbnails,
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make thumbnails, take photos, design things for me.
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If I can't do it, I'm going to learn how to do it or not do it.
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So look, all of this to say, all my yapping, tech is in a really interesting place right now.
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I'm going to continue to cover new things.
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I'm going to cover old things, things that I care about, things that excite me.
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And if you like my videos, you like my old videos, nothing is going to change, of course.
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I also make a lot of short -form videos as well if you don't want to watch me talk for this long.
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So if you enjoyed this video, be sure to leave a like, subscribe if you're new here, and of course, thank you for watching.
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Damn.
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Thank you.
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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节口语课以视频“why we started to hate technology”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：photo, device, technology, perfect, ipod。 这段视频共有 122 个句子、1812 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 10:06。 说话人语速自然，每分钟约 179 个词，接近日常对话。 85% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| embrace 动词 | /ɛmˈbɹes/ | 擁抱 /拥抱, 摟抱 /搂抱 |
| aesthetic 形容词 | /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/ | 審美的 /审美的 |
| capture 动词 | /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ | 捕獲 /捕获, 佔領 /占领 |
| collect 动词 | /ˈkɑlɪkt/ | 庋藏, 收藏 |
| edit 动词 | /ˈɛdɪt/ | 編輯 /编辑 |
| rejection 名词 | /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/ | 拒絕 /拒绝 |
| nostalgia 名词 | /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/ | 懷舊 /怀旧, 懷古 /怀古 |
| element 名词 | /ˈɛləmənt/ | 要素 |
| compare 动词 | /kəmˈpɛɚ/ | 比, 比較 /比较 |
| android 名词 | /ˈænˌdɹɔɪd/ | 人形機器人 /人形机器人, 仿生人 |
| hire 动词 | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | 租借, 出租 |
| smooth 形容词 | /smuːð/ | 平穩 /平稳, 順利 /顺利 |
| discover 动词 | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | 發現 /发现, 發覺 /发觉 |
| calendar 名词 | /ˈkæl.ən.də/ | 日曆 /日历, 曆 /历 |
| rely 动词 | /ɹɪˈlaɪ/ | 依賴 /依赖, 依靠 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| come out 动词 | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | 出, 出來 /出来 |
| blow up 动词 | 炸掉, 爆破 | |
| go back 动词 | 回去, 返回 |
视频中的语法
说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：
| 结构 | 视频中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作 | I've been seeing · I've been noticing · I've been doing |
| 现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事 | has never been · I've seen · I've been |
| 被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的 | is just split · being pushed · are really muted |
| 定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物 | people who actually · people who are · now, which is |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 36 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 they're, I've, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- “th” 音: aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, smooth /smuːð/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, authenticity /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/, thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, subscription /səbˈskɹɪpʃən/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/, shaky /ˈʃeɪki/
- 长单词——注意重音位置: entity /ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi], authenticity /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/, imperfection /ɪmpɚˈfɛkʃən/, capitalize /ˈkæpətəˌlaɪz/, inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, convenient /kənˈviː.niənt/, inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: embrace /ɛmˈbɹes/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, collect /ˈkɑlɪkt/, edit /ˈɛdɪt/, prompt /pɹɑmpt/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: rely /ɹɪˈlaɪ/, blurry /ˈblɜːɹi/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 embrace, aesthetic, capture 这类单词。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。