India, Feb. 7 -- "One day we logged onto the internet. And then we never logged out."

For a certain cohort, it is difficult to imagine that more people alive today have experienced years completely without the internet than those who haven't.

Ria Chopra, who specialises in writing about Gen Z pop and internet culture, is part of that generation:

"Gen Z has straddled three eras: where the internet didn't exist as we became people; where it was work and play and a tool to become a person; where it has become a habitat in which we live as people."

This straddling - "internet as both origin story and ongoing narrative" - places her in an excellent position to analyse the various ways this "single greatest transformative force" has forever...