Why, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analogvinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.Were surrounded by screens; our music comes in the form of digital files; we tap words into a notes appWhy do we still crave therealnessof analog, seeking out vinyl records, fountain pens, cameras with film? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Robert Hassan explores our deep connection to analog technology. Our analog urge, he explains, is about what weve lost from our technological past, something thats not there in our digital present.Were nostalgic for what we remember indistinctly as somehow more real, more human. Surveying some of the major developments of analog technology, Hassan shows us whats been lost with the digital. Along the way, he discusses the appeal of the 2011 silent, black-and-white Oscar-winning film The Artist; the revival of the non-e-book book; the early mechanical clocks that