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MORE HELPED THAN HARMED<\/td>\nConnection<\/strong><\/td>\nDigital life links people to people, knowledge, education and entertainment anywhere globally at any time in an affordable, nearly frictionless manner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCommerce, government and society<\/strong><\/td>\nDigital life revolutionizes civic, business, consumer and personal logistics, opening up a world of opportunity and options.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCrucial intelligence<\/strong><\/td>\nDigital life is essential to tapping into an ever-widening array of health, safety, and science resources, tools and services in real time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nContentment<\/strong><\/td>\nDigital life empowers people to improve, advance or reinvent their lives, allowing them to self-actualize, meet soul mates and make a difference in the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nContinuation toward quality<\/strong><\/td>\nEmerging tools will continue to expand the quality and focus of digital life; the big-picture results will continue to be a plus overall for humanity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MORE HARMED THAN HELPED<\/td>\nDigital deficits<\/strong><\/td>\nPeople\u2019s cognitive capabilities will be challenged in multiple ways, including their capacity for analytical thinking, memory, focus, creativity, reflection and mental resilience.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDigital addiction<\/strong><\/td>\nInternet businesses are organized around dopamine-dosing tools designed to hook the public.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDigital distrust\/divisiveness<\/strong><\/td>\nPersonal agency will be reduced and emotions such as shock, fear, indignation and outrage will be further weaponized online, driving divisions and doubts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDigital duress<\/strong><\/td>\nInformation overload + declines in trust and face-to-face skills + poor interface design = rises in stress, anxiety, depression, inactivity and sleeplessness.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDigital dangers<\/strong><\/td>\nThe structure of the internet and pace of digital change invite ever-evolving threats to human interaction, security, democracy, jobs, privacy and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
POTENTIAL REMEDIES<\/td>\nReimagine systems<\/strong><\/td>\nSocieties can revise both tech arrangements and the structure of human institutions \u2013 including their composition, design, goals and processes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nReinvent tech<\/strong><\/td>\nThings can change by reconfiguring hardware and software to improve their human-centered performance and by exploiting tools like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRegulate<\/strong><\/td>\nGovernments and\/or industries should create reforms through agreement on standards, guidelines, codes of conduct, and passage of laws and rules.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRedesign media literacy<\/strong><\/td>\nFormally educate people of all ages about the impacts of digital life on well-being and the way tech systems function, as well as encourage appropriate, healthy uses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRecalibrate expectations<\/strong><\/td>\nHuman-technology coevolution comes at a price; digital life in the 2000s is no different. People must gradually evolve and adjust to these changes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFated to fail<\/strong><\/td>\nA share of respondents say all this may help somewhat, but \u2013 mostly due to human nature \u2013 it is unlikely that these responses will be effective enough.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"sub_headline":"","sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","design_slug":"","canonical_parent_id":0,"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"footnotes":"","_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0},"categories":[],"chart_type":[],"datasets":[],"level_of_effort":[],"primary_audience":[],"information_type":[],"class_list":["post-4777","chart","type-chart","status-publish","hentry"],"label":false,"post_parent":0,"word_count":401,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/chart\/themes-about-the-future-of-well-being-and-digital-life\/","_embeds":[],"table_of_contents":[],"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"Themes about the future of well-being and digital life","description":"MORE HELPED THAN HARMED Connection Digital life links people to people, knowledge, education and entertainment anywhere globally at any time in an affordable, nearly frictionless manner. Commerce, government and society…","og_title":"Themes about the future of well-being and digital life","og_description":"","schema_type":"WebPage","noindex":false,"canonical_url":"","primary_terms":[],"custom_schema":[],"og_image":0,"indexnow_submitted_at":null,"gsc_index_status":null},"prepublish_checks":{},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chart\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chart"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chart"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chart\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35846,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chart\/4777\/revisions\/35846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"chart_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chart_type?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"datasets","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/datasets?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"level_of_effort","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/level_of_effort?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"primary_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_audience?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"information_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/information_type?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}