A New Recorder and The Highway

About this episode

Dave Bowman reflects on the intersection of technology, nostalgia, and the experience of driving along Highway 101.

There is something wonderfully old-fashioned about thisepisode. Not old in the sense of worn out, but old in the way a good highway diner is old, or the way a favorite ball cap becomes part of a man’s identity. This is not a polished studio production wrapped in synthetic perfection. It is one man, a new recorder, a road stretching westward across the Hood Canal Bridge, and the quiet realization that sometimes the best conversations happenwhen nobody is trying too hard. In this stream-of-consciousness drive along Highway 101toward the Sequim Irrigation Days Parade, Dave wanders through the strange landscape where technology, nostalgia, frustration, and simple beauty all collide. One minute he is wrestling with computer equipment, Adobe Audition, and the financial gymnastics of avoiding a thousand-dollar computer purchase by spending hundreds on “solutions” that may not solve anything at all. The next, he is watching cloud-covered Olympic Mountains drift past the windshield while reflecting on why driving itself feels almost spiritual. Along the way, there are thoughts about Washington State gasprices, climate politics, aging technology, self-driving cars, old software that still…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Bowman

Topics covered

• nostalgia
• technology
• driving
• memory
• motion
• climate politics

Keywords

• highway
• diner
• gas prices
• self-driving cars
• aging technology
• cloud-covered mountains

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Adobe Audition

Places: Hood Canal Bridge, Washington State, Olympic Mountains, Sequim

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