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Reason
Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Gen Z Isn't Powerless Against Technology

Gen Z has little familiarity with "any sense of community," writer Freya India said in a teary-eyed rant recently.

"Attention hijacking is the thing I worry most about on a long term basis for humanity's thriving," wrote Jackson Dahl. "Techno-capitalism is slowly but surely turning us into something non-human. Attention is upstream of everything: presence, agency, love."

Laments like these are everywhere online. Every week, new laments from or about Gen Z seem to go viral, spewing desperate and desolate pronunciations about technology.

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