If you have one word, it could be any part of speech that you want,
to describe your overall relationship to technology at this moment in time, what would that word be?
Antagonistic.
Complicated.
Fraught.
I was going to say reluctant, but maybe that's not right.
I'm Julie Beck, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
And I'm Natalie Brennan, a producer at The Atlantic.
In this upcoming season of How To, we'll be exploring the often fraught,
always changing relationship people have with technology.
And the ways that, in this moment, the terms of the relationship are being renegotiated.
Around two-thirds of Gen Z adults say they're nostalgic for a time before they're alive.
They love technology, but they want to be in control of it, not feel controlled by it.
We've been thinking a lot about how our relationship with our devices
is all tangled up in our relationship to one another.
We don't realize how much of our habits kind of live in other people around us.
Think about it like when do you pick up your phone?
It's when the person you're talking to picks up their phone.
And how tech helps us solve some problems while also creating new ones.
I don't think anyone is supposed to see their own face as much as we do now.