Technology, AI & Digital Life
I asked my teenager for their phone one evening, ostensibly to look something up, and ended up scrolling their For You feed for almost twenty minutes before I remembered why I had…
Somewhere between my aunt’s forwarded health tips and my cousin’s baby photos, I realized our family group chat had quietly turned into something I check the way I used to check the…
Four years after I finished my degree, a chat named after a project that no longer exists is still sitting in my messages app, still occasionally lighting up with a notification. It…
I spent almost ten years typing everything important on a piece of flat glass. Emails, work reports, late-night messages to friends, the occasional short story I never finished. Somewhere along the way…
For years my rule was simple and, in retrospect, not especially well thought out: buy new, buy once, avoid the hassle of wondering what condition a used machine was actually in. That…
The notification was small and easy to ignore, the kind of thing that shows up buried two menus deep in a settings app: “Maximum Capacity: 80%.” My phone was two and a…
The mistake that changed how I use AI wasn’t a big, obvious one. It was small, confident, and almost invisible, which is exactly why it stuck with me. I’d asked a chatbot…
Six weeks ago, I mentioned to a chatbot, in passing, that my father-in-law had started using a walker after a hip surgery. It wasn’t the point of the conversation, just a stray…
I’ve planned every family trip for twelve years, and I’ve gotten good at it in the way you get good at anything you do out of necessity: efficiently, joylessly, and always slightly…
I noticed it while reading over my older kid’s shoulder during a homework session: three different sentences in a row started with the exact phrase the autocomplete suggestion had offered, phrases my…