Digital natives will rebel, and that’s good for everyone

At the end of the 19th century, before the invention of cinema and radio, every musical composition, performance, speech, even a natural sight like a rainbow, was a unique event. Film and radio changed that, forcing a massive shift in the way we consume the world’s media, which at the time was founded by people with a relentless reverence for new media. This led to a phenomenal lack of restraint was the future, and it was making them rich. Moreover, it was obviously better.

Film and radio will eventually merge television— creating even more disconnect at the core of performance while replacing human connection with strategic dopamine sparks. more excitement and no effort equaled a better future.As the flow to personal devices became ubiquitous, that future merged greater profitability with the law of diminishing returns; crushed empathy, heightened anxiety, and social inadequacy became central to the human experience.

This has ultimately led to a general societal malaise, and I believe that 2025 will be the time when certain aspects of society will begin to methodically break away from their screen-based addictions. I predict that Gen Z will be the leaders of this shift natives for whom simplicity without technological exchange would be as novel as its original technological advance.

Gen Z (currently 13 to 27 years old) are the people most affected by digital addiction. After all, they were born with the invention of the Internet. Their primary methods of understanding the world were digital from the beginning has been unavailable for school work, teaching and guidance. Even the informational routine of navigating normal life has been relegated to apps; the dominance of the screen is institutionalized with all limitations and no learned experience for their survival.

Except for their instincts, Gen Z’s instincts are becoming the dominant force for change in modern society are user-generated content instead of expensive new media.They seek longer-term meaning from experiences beyond the short-term gratification of materialism US Gallup pollMore than 50 percent of respondents said they do not trust tech companies, the government, or the justice system.

Gen Z is embracing it too underconsumption– mainstream and non-influential trends, questioning the values ​​that media revere and raise demands on the work-life balance that terrified generations before them. All of these are positive for events that are important to society.

So in 2025, I think the next step will be for Gen Z to embrace the simplicity of human exchange, events without the ever-corrupting screen mediation is, unpredictable, real change in the digital life they/us are so dominated by. But it’s human and dimensional and full of things we can’t get online. That’s what we humans are at our messy core, and for all those reasons, I believe we’ll see the virtues of screen pullback begin to be celebrated, with Gen Z leading the way.