How kava drinking frees us from digital inundation

Smartphone addiction and distraction have made it tough to enjoy the simple pleasures of an unmediated, uninterrupted life of times past.

With augmented and virtual reality headsets on their way to mass adoption, 'heritage reality' -- life free from screens or digital mediation -- may become impossible to experience, and its corresponding gifts lost forever.

New approaches are needed to foster valuable experiences that can only be cherished outside of 'digital reality', such as in-person socializing and other physical leisure activities. Kava, a timeless, non-alcoholic social beverage from the Pacific Islands, can help its drinkers enjoy these distinctly analog experiences. 

Kava has been drank for 3,000+ years because it promotes relaxation and sociability without diminishing mental clarity or health -- think of kava like coffee, but for the evening after work instead of the morning at work. Most impressively, because of kava's unique effects, drinkers don't want to look at screens and, for 1-2 hours, are able to fully enjoy heritage reality.

I'll present cultural and clinical evidence on how kava gives us freedom from different forms of digital inundation.