Brian Lerer on WNYC. We're going to end the show today with a guest in your calls on nostalgia

for the time before cell phones. Are you nostalgic if you lived in the time before cell phones?

For that time, call up and tell us why and what exactly you're nostalgic about? 212-433,

WNYC, 433-9692. And the other piece of this is some reporting that we'll refer to and we'll

have the writer as a guest, that Gen Z people who grew up entirely with phones in their lives, obviously,

or at least available to them, are also increasingly nostalgic for a time that they never knew

before cell phones, let's say pre-2000. So does this sound like you, no matter your age?

If you are Gen Z, even younger,

do you feel yourself sometimes being nostalgic

for what you imagine life was like

before the era of the smartphone?

212-433, WNYC, 433-9692.

And if you're older than that,

and you do remember that time, what about it?

Are you nostalgic for?

212-433-9692.

I'll tell you one little drill I did with an audience a few years ago and I was doing a public appearance.

I asked, how many of you think that the ubiquity of cell phones has made our society worse?

And everybody's hand went up.

And I said, how many of you are willing to give up your cell phones? Do you think your life would be better today if you just give up your phone?

And nobody's hand went up.

So that's the dilemma, right, that a lot of people are dealing with.

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