Introducing How To Touch Grass
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What single word describes your current relationship with technology?
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.
Who are the hosts and what is the focus of the new season?
Fraught. I was gonna 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.
Why do many Gen Z adults feel nostalgic for a time before they were born?
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.
How does constant front‑camera use warp our brains and attention?
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. We're just like front-facing camera, front-facing camera, front-facing camera, and it's i it's weird. It's it's warping our brains. We're searching for ways to
unwarp our brains.
A common piece of advice for those who have been brain rotted by the internet is to go touch grass. So are you also telling us to touch grass?
What does ‘touch grass’ mean and why is it the theme of the upcoming episode?
Yeah, pretty
much. Coming this summer is How to Touch Grass.
The first episode arrives Monday, July 27th. Subscribe now.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What single word describes your current relationship with technology?
0:00–0:14
2
Who are the hosts and what is the focus of the new season?
0:14–0:25
3
Why do many Gen Z adults feel nostalgic for a time before they were born?
0:25–1:09
4
How does constant front‑camera use warp our brains and attention?
1:09–1:38
5
What does ‘touch grass’ mean and why is it the theme of the upcoming episode?
1:38–1:48