Khayyam Wakil, the Venice Beach-based chief strategy officer of Live Planet, on how beautiful design led him to his favorite apps.

Ericka Inman, a pedicab driver and eyelash technician in Austin, Texas, explains her two degrees of separation from Bill Gates and shares…

Griffen Cooper, a 25-year-old bartender and chainstitch embroiderer from Camden, Maine, on using Instagram as a tool for an analog hobby.

Jaciana Melquiades, a historian and businesswoman in Rio de Janeiro, on how she manages her son’s relationship with technology.

Three friends in Shanghai, Jiao Tonglv, Qin Zihan, and Wang Yihu, share their social app preferences and doubts about a robotic future.

Saba Jenga, a Brooklyn hip-hop artist raised in a record store, on how technology killed music—and brought it back to life.

How college students Andrew Fawaz and Joy Doueiry navigate long-distance love in a digital age.

Atlanta accountant and music manager Simon D. Gray on tech products he could live without.

Randy Ryandi, a photographer in Brooklyn, shares his preference for analog and his dim view of social platforms.

John Douglas, a feisty and semi-retired NYU ITP professor from Burlington, Vermont, on the confluence of activism and technology.