Joe Moody’s Web Adventures

As our world becomes more digital, the greater our yearning will grow for the natural.

This is already seen in the rising property values of homes near the natural wonders: lakes, oceans, mountains, forests and open landscapes.

Just as opposites attract, we gravitate more toward the natural to balance our increasingly digital existence:

• Extreme sports, most of which interact with nature, like rock climbing, snowboarding, off-road mountain-biking and many others, all re-connect us with the physical universe from which our bodies derived. They take us out of man’s creations, and into God’s original canvass.

•  New digital clocks now play back sounds some urban people never hear, like streams, birds, crickets at night, and wind in the trees

• Model trains sets, growinging in sales and popularity, replicate an old-school technology that stood the test of time. Like most old technologies, they have a physical charisma not as prevalent in our computer age.

• Car manufacturers have brought back classic car designs from an age when no computers ran the engine

•  Turntables, also known as record players, recently outsold electric guitars in Europe, not just from DJs scatching samples, but from new listeners discovering rare tracks, cover art and the warmer sound of an old technology.

• Reality TV shows replacing the canned laughter of sitcoms, as if our own reality is already too canned.