Who's in Charge? How to make sure you're in control of technology and not the other way around

Be honest — when's the last time you picked up your phone intending to check one thing, and surfaced 45 minutes later with no idea where the time went? Technology was supposed to make life easier, but somewhere along the way it started running a lot of us instead of the other way around. The apps are designed to keep you scrolling. The notifications are engineered to grab your attention. The algorithms are trained on what keeps you watching, not what's actually good for you. So how do you fight back? In this session, three guys who genuinely love technology pull back the curtain on how it's built to hook you — and walk you through real, practical strategies for putting it back in its proper place. You'll leave with concrete steps you can take that same night to reclaim your time, your focus, and your peace of mind, without having to throw your phone in the river.

Leading this session is a tag-team of NewSpring's resident tech minds. Patrick Emerson serves as our church IT guru, keeping the systems running that everything else depends on. Daniel Dixon is our AV tech ninja, the kind of guy who can make any piece of equipment do exactly what it's supposed to. And Kody Page is our Elementary Pastor and a self-professed technology geek who lives at the intersection of ministry and gadgets. Between the three of them, they bring decades of hands-on experience with the tools that shape our daily lives — and a shared conviction that technology is a great servant but a terrible master.