How Do You Restore Balance in Your Relationship With Your Phones?

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i think our phones cand have started out many years ago as like assistants, like they were there to sort of be helpful with whatever you wanted to do. But then at some point in the past, like few years, they got promoted and became our bosses. And so i think that restoring balance in our relationship with the devices in our lives is really important. I'm very cautious f like, what kind of media i'm consuming, about that,. whether i'm in a facebook group where all the parents share the craziest, scariest things that have happened to their kids. It's part of how i try to reduce the influence that machines have on my life. For example, i

Humans can have a complex relationship with technology: tools like smartphones make our lives easier, but they can also be a source of anxiety or dependence. The internet can be an amazing place, or it can be a doom scrolling nightmare. And then there’s the always looming threat that our jobs–even the ones we thought only humans could do, like making art–could be lost to automation. Kevin Roose is a tech journalist who writes about the intersection of tech, business, and culture. In today’s episode, he talks about the shift of technology’s role in our lives and how we can set up boundaries with our devices to regain our autonomy. He also shares why he’s optimistic about the future, and his view on how futureproofing your job in an automated world has less to do with sharpening up our coding skills and more to do with leaning into our shared humanity. His new book, “Future Proof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation” is out now.