Oct 13, 2025: The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane

The protest, held on Sep 27, 2025 in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, was called “Scathing Hatred of Information Technology and the Passionate Hemorrhaging of Our Neo-Liberal Experience.”

Audio segment produced by Todd Mazierski.



• theludditeclub.org

• Rude Mechanical Orchestra - the band heard during the protest

• Feb 10, 2025 Techtonic with August Lamm: “you don’t need a smartphone”

• Oct 28, 2024 Techtonic with members of the Luddite Club in-studio: Lucy, Sasha, and Jameson

• Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology (gift link, WSJ, Oct 6, 2025) – featuring Lucy, who was on the Oct 28 show linked above. Excerpt:

Lucy Jackson uses a phone that can do little besides make a call and, with some effort, send a text. That complicates life for a college freshman in 2025.

But for Jackson, who uses paper maps and calls the local cab company when she needs a ride, the added challenges of low-tech life are a small price to pay.

• A gleam of hope: meet the Luddite Club (by Mark Hurst, November 15, 2024)

• The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing (by past Techtonic guest Brian Merchant, Sep 21, 2025)