Is 2026 the year of analogue?
“People are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the algorithmic economy that sees our attention as a product sold to advertisers to hold our eyeballs on screens as long as possible,” Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Associate Professor at UCL and author of Smartphone Nation: Why We’re All Addicted to Screens and What You Can Do About It, muses. “So much of [the analogue lifestyle] is about trying to become more intentional about usage, making technology work for us in the way we want it to function, and ultimately bringing our focus back towards the collective from this individualistic way of being.”