Nayeema Raza
speaker
637 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Nayeema Raza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You don't need my phone.
I don't have an option.
It is sexy to think that the tech apocalypse is Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Terminator, but it could be so much more mundane than that.
Just us, driven in circles, held hostage by drop-down menus, with gadgets disintermediating us from each other, from our own bodies and from our curiosities.
Because nowadays, when we have a question, we don't wait and phone a friend.
We friend our phones.
And that feels so empowering to have all of this knowledge at our fingertips, yet early research from MIT tells us it's making us lazier and less smart, and it is definitely making us less connected.
This is not what our parents and grandparents were sold when they saw this relic of an ad from AT&T which says, reach out and touch someone.
And yes, for all kinds of reasons, it would not go down well today.
LAUGHTER
But it is oddly prescient, because we have never been more connected and more out of touch.
Now, I'm not anti-tech.
I actually cover it as a journalist.
I have every gadget under the sun.
And most days, I think I'm in a relationship with my chat GPT, or as I like to call him, chat daddy.
I am pro-human.
And as we progress into an AI world that you've read 471.5 articles about today alone, I want to make a case for old habits, three of them, and tell you how I learned them the hard way.
The first is to pause, to take just one second when you feel that urge to reach for your digital pacifier.
This, by the way, is a second.
Studies show waiting that long before taking action lets your brain work better.
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