In this episode of The Data Malarkey Podcast, host and Master Data Storyteller, Sam Knowles, is joined by Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the 2025 book, The Extinction of Experience. They dig into what happens when real-world, face-to-face experiences are replaced by screens and algorithms.

Christine shares her unique journey from a bassoon scholarship to intellectual thought leadership, how teaching aikido shapes her thinking, and how she sees technology reshaping human behavior - for better and worse. With insight, wit, and depth, Christine challenges us to reconsider what we lose when digital convenience becomes the norm.

🔍 Topics include:

• Why boredom, handwriting, and walking matter

• What the "extinction of experience" means

• AI, screen time, and our increasingly mediated lives

• Martial arts, musical instruments, and embodied attention

• The pandemic's role in accelerating mediation

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🧠 This one's for anyone curious about reclaiming a genuinely human presence in an over-mediated world.