![]() ![]() ![]() – Commerce, Government, Society: It revolutionizes civic, business, consumer and personal logistics, opening up a world of opportunity and options. ![]() * BENEFITS of DIGITAL LIFE – Connection: It links people to people, knowledge, education and entertainment anywhere globally at any time in a nearly frictionless manner. – Fated to Fail: A share of respondents say all of these remedies may help somewhat, but, mostly due to human nature, it is highly unlikely that these responses will be effective enough. – Recalibrate Expectations: Human-technology coevolution comes at a price digital life in the 2000s is no different people must gradually evolve and adjust to these changes. – Redesign Media Literacy:Formally educate people of all ages about the impacts of digital life on well-being and the motivations underpinning tech systems, as well as encourage appropriate, healthy uses. – Regulate: Governments and/or industries should effect reforms through agreement on standards, guidelines, codes of conduct, and passage of rules and laws. – Reinvent Tech: A reconfiguration of hardware/software to improve human-centered performance can be paired with appropriate applications of emerging technologies such as AI, AR, VR and MR. * POTENTIAL REMEDIES – Reimagine Systems: A revision and re-set of tech approaches and human institutions (their composition, design, goals and processes) will better serve long-term good. – Digital Dangers: The structure of the internet and pace of digital change invite ever-evolving threats to human interaction, security, democracy, jobs, privacy and more. – Digital Duress:Information overload + declines in trust and face-to-face skills + poor interface design = rises in stress, anxiety, depression, inactivity and sleeplessness. – Digital Distrust/Divisiveness: Personal agency is reduced and emotions such as shock, fear, indignation and outrage are being weaponized online, driving divisions and doubts. – DIgital Addiction: Internet businesses working to earn attention-economy profits are organized around dopamine-dosing tools designed to hook the public. To put things into context, among the key themes emerging from among the 1,150 respondents’ answers to all research questions were: * CONCERNS – Digital Deficits: Cognitive abilities, including analytical thinking, memory, focus, processing speed and effectiveness, creativity and mental resilience, are undergoing change. The written elaborations to question one by for-credit respondents – explaining why they chose to say well-being will be mostly harmed, mostly helped or mostly stay the same – are listed below the following summary of the common themes found among all responses to question one. About 21% said things will stay about the same. These responses were collected in an “opt in” invitation to more than 8,000 people 1,150 respondents answered at least one question. About 32% said individuals’ well-being will be more harmed than helped. The questions: 1) Over the next decade, how will changes in digital life impact people’s overall well-being physically and mentally? 2) Do you think there are any actions that might be successfully taken to reduce or eradicate potential harms of digital life to individuals’ well-being? 3) Please share a brief personal anecdote about how digital life has changed your daily life, your family’s life or your friends’ lives in regard to well-being.Ībout 47% said in answer to question one that individuals’ well-being will be more helped than harmed by digital life in the next decade. However, there is increasing commentary and research about the effects digital technologies have on individuals’ well-being, their level of stress, their ability to perform well at work and in social settings, their capability to focus their attention, their capacity to modulate their level of connectivity and their general happiness. More advances are expected to emerge in the future that are likely to help people lead even better lives. Results released in spring 2018 – To illuminate current attitudes about the likely impacts of digital life on individuals’ well-being in the next decade and assess what interventions might possibly emerge to help resolve any potential challenges, Pew Research and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted a large-scale canvassing of technology experts, scholars, corporate and public practitioners and other leaders, asking:ĭigital life’s impacts on well-being: People are using digital tools to solve problems, enhance their lives and improve their productivity. Will digital life be mostly helpful or mostly harmful to individuals’ mental and physical well-being in the next decade? ![]() Credited responses to the primary research question: ![]()
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