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The Lost Generation of the Digital Age

Year Published: 2025

Gen Z was promised freedom. Instead, we got paralysis.

We were told we could be anything, and the internet showed us every possible version of that promise — all at once. Phones became our homes, our workspaces, and our relationships. Technology made life easy, but it also made it meaningless.

In this essay, Clare Ashcraft explores how digital comfort, social media, and disembodied living have shaped Gen Z into a generation both hyperconnected and quietly lost.

Gen Z is, in most ways, no different than the generations who came before us. Cigarette lighters in our cars were replaced with phone chargers, but we still follow the incentives given to us and do what is required of us to survive. The problem is, to survive requires almost nothing.