Rise of the Gen-Z Luddite
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THE ECONOMIST — We will free the iPad babies,” went one chant at the Summer of Ludd. “No Gemini, no GPT, no Grok, no Claude,” went another. The festival for big-tech sceptics, held in New York from June 28th to July 5th, stayed mostly true to its principles. Phones were banned.
The event had no social-media presence. Organisers relied on posters and word of mouth to publicise the festival. Perhaps as a result, the crowds were small. Yet those who came, most of them in their 20s, reflect an ambivalence about technology that is increasingly common among Generation Z.
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