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Welcome, welcome. Welcome to the Pro America Report. This is Ryan Hite, filling in today for Mr. Ed Martin. Glad to be with you and be here on this fine day. I am glad that you’re here with us. We’ve got a lot to Talk About but before we do that, let me remind you, go to ProAmericaReport.com. Proamericareport.com is where you will find Ed’s substack, all the things he’s doing and writing about and talking about often coincides with our what you need to know. Segment up here at the front of the show. Also go to phyllisschlafly.com. Phyllisschlafly.com is where you’re going to find all of the Pro America Report podcasts. The stand alone segments for each guest, you’ll find our links and resources and most importantly. You’re going to find that all important all punctual weekday WYNK e-mail. What you need to know every morning into your inbox, 8:00 AM Eastern Time and all the concurrent time zones. You will not be disappointed. Go to phyllisschlafly.com to sign up for that. You won’t regret it.
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I saw a headline and it gave me our what you need to know and and I tell you what, let’s just go. We’ll just dive right in. OK. Let me go for it.
What you need to know is it’s time for revenge of the analog.
Now, what do I mean by that? Let me define some terms here. I’m talking about analog versus digital. By this we mean older technology, things that we’re used to. Paper. Heaven forbid. Paper and books keeping records. In a physical way and not a digital way, I I tell you what, the digital world is absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. We were just dealing with some medical stuff with my dad and I. I’m just constantly blown away by how awesome it is to have the advancements in apps and management technology, seeing test results and having communications from the doctors or Hospitals, wherever you are, whatever kind of care you’re receiving, that seems. Absolutely incredible. And it is. It’s it’s huge it. This is American innovation, man. There is nowhere else on the planet where this kind of innovation takes care of people, has taken care to understand the natural world around us and how we can preserve and enhance life, how we can do the incredible things that were just unheard of. Not even just a, you know, a century ago. But you know, a quarter century ago, things that were unthought of unheard of, technology and innovation is so incredibly awesome.
And yet, every good thing in this broken and fallen world, if you share the same world view, I do this of the Christian faith that we’re all broken and there’s all sin mixed in with everything good, every awesome good technological advancement always seems to come with its drawbacks.
Now, is it an inherent drawback – not necessarily. Sometimes it’s just a possibility, but it is something to always be on guard for. So as I’m, just this week, as we’re dealing with family stuff, noticing some awesome advancements in technology, this headline pops up in front of me and it reminds me, Oh yeah, that’s right. There’s another side to this coin.
Here from Breitbart, we’re talking about Google’s healthcare invasion. The Ultra woke Gemini AI is coming to Fitbit and cancer screenings. You know, this is really interesting. I think I shared this and I’ll go ahead and share it again.
I just went through, you know, the George Orwell novel 1984. Now obviously this has been around since the 1940s. I’m a little bit late to the game here, I’ll admit. I knew a lot of principles from 1984 and a lot of the characters, a lot of the storyline, but I had never read the book cover to cover. I did. I sat down. I did that. I I feel like that is something you should do, especially with an author who put together a novel or a piece of fiction. There is a narrative in every book really. And I mean in non fiction as well. There’s a narrative, there is a front to back. There’s a reason that the Author put the story in this way and there is an incredible warning there. I mean, obviously there’s a lot of warnings about political realities totalitarianism.
But particularly when it comes to technology allowing technology into our lives has a big double edged sword when it comes to your privacy. And then your ability to be monitored and controlled or blackmail, whatever you want to call it, you go on that route.
You know it, it it really is in this day and age, terrifying to read some concept from, you know, 1940s a novel about how technology could be used back against you as a people by other people, and sure enough, you know, I’m not even talking about Skynet. The robots taking over none of that. I’m just talking about how man can use technology against other men and in the era of smart refrigerators and smart thermostats and everything being connected to our smartphone to go back and read 1984. The telescreens that are always watching, always telling you what to think, always mesmerizing you while simultaneously spying on you. It really is terrifying. I mean, it’s it’s shocking and terrifying to see how we are not actually very far off from George Orwell’s Grand Vision and warning to the people, you know, that would read his book.
So looking at this, seeing how Google is putting the Gemini AI technology into personal wearables. The devices like Fitbit, Apple Watch, stuff like that. That’s what a wearable is. We’re talking about wearable technology. There’s a a a new series of very ambitious things that Google has unveiled and what it’s looking to do is advancing, or I should say, harnessing the power of AI in the healthcare industry.
Now. There can obviously be some incredible advantages to this. Make no mistake that the the revolutionary speed and technology that this could bring to so many things.
But as you start to, you know, kind of stop and and back up and research and and I could go on and on about the positives cause again. There. Are so many positives, but as you back up and you start to look at it you realize this surge of interest to realize the new realms of possibilities. What can we do? It’s kind of a a good and prescient moment to stop and say, wait a minute. Let’s think about this and and here and going to really talk about 1984. Let me bring in yet another pop culture reference. Today is going to be the pop culture references, folks, that’s how we’re going to that’s. That’s how we’re going to move the Pro America Report down the field today.
But no, no, you bring this in and there’s a really interesting line from a very Classic movie that most of us know and have seen Jurassic Park with 1994, 1994’s finest CGI that, it’s not that great CGI, but very, very good movie. Very cool movie. Classic, grew up with it. I know a lot of you. You know, adulthood older than me. It was huge, huge, informative movie. But an incredibly important question was asked or not a question I guess I should say a proposition. Was made by Jeff Goldblum’s character. They’re describing all the cool things that they could do and look at this and this and this and I see. This story about Google and look at all the possibilities for AI and healthcare.
And in this in this film, as they’re describing what they’ve done, Jeff Goldblum’s character says. But wait a minute. Your scientists have been so focused on, I’m paraphrasing, your scientists have been so focused on what they can do, if they can, that they haven’t stopped to ask if they should.
And as we look at this Incredible surge of wearables of of artificial intelligence infused into the smart technologies in our homes, in our healthcare. You run down the path of what’s what’s happening to our healthcare records, to our private data, how everything’s being digitized. Yes, it comes with the incredible advantage of speed, of efficiency, of new ways to make things better and healthier and quicker for people, for healing and for medicine. But it comes at the price of privacy. Very often.
And this is where I give my what you need to know, it’s time for revenge of the analog.
When it comes to you and me, you know what? Maybe you can’t. If you have to go to a hospital and get something taken care of. You can’t waltz in and demand that. I want you to stop digitizing my records.
But you and I can make movements to unplug ourselves from this dangerous world that we are more and more soaking ourselves into as all of our work as all of our school, as all of our games. As all of our everything continues to go on to devices that can monitor it and use that data, our private habits against us, which make no mistake. This is Google’s whole point.
Their their entire business model is knowing your business and being able to sell and market that to companies who want to sell you something. This is how Google makes their money. This is why it’s a multi billion dollar, probably a trillion dollar company at this point. Actually I don’t know the value I should look that up before we started. That’d be interesting because they’re getting rich off of what they know about you. And you’ve given it to them.
It’s time for a revenge of the analog. Get a book, put down the e-reader, stop playing games on your phone. Go grab a deck of cards, go to the bookstore and start looking at the board games. Do these things with your family. Unplug from the screen.
Maybe it’s time to start mailing things again. OK, let’s not get carried away. The Postal Service stinks.
Maybe it’s time to start doing things in a physical, analog way again. Little by little as much as we can as our form of protest and as our form of protecting ourselves against all of this digital confidence, we’re releasing maybe. Maybe it’s time for revenge of the analog.
That’s what you need to know. That’s my opinion today. Come on back. We got some great ones after the break with a couple of good guests and I’ll be back to wrap up the show here on the Pro America Report. You don’t want to miss it. We’ll talk to you in a moment. Go to proamericareport.com, Phyllisschlafly.com, and we will see you right back here after the break. Pro America Report. We’ll be right back.
