I have been thinking and writing about resistance to technology for a while, spurred by an unresolved alarm that Americans have not put up much of a fight against the sense of alienation caused by our growing dependence on screens. It’s increasingly clear to me that we will not survive as a society without some seismic intervention that separates us from our screens, our algorithms, and our little simulacra of social life. I believe that such a rupture will come—but what will it look like?