Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Logging on was once a conscious—even perilous—act; a series of button pushes and clicks that, in the old dial-up days, could trigger a scream: “I’M ON THE PHONE.” Now, being online is implicit; it’s humanity’s M.O., and depending on your job and support networks, participation can feel compulsory. For young people in particular, constant connection is pretty much a fact of life, something baked into existence, and yet it’s totally at odds with the rising discourse around the benefits of logging off and being “chronically offline.” The concept of logging off is everywhere: It’s a Gen Z and Millennial aspiration to disconnect from hostile tech , linkable to the ceaselessness of ’90s nostalgia and revived interest in physical media. It’s a response to the increasingly antisocial era of the Internet , algorithmic burnout, and doomscrolling hangovers.…