The future of well-being in a technology-saturated world

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Many experts say that digital life will continue to expand people’s frontiers and possibilities over the next decade, and the world to come will do more to help than harm people. However, nearly a third believe that digital living will be more detrimental to people’s health, mental capacity and happiness. Most say there are solutions
When the Pew Research Center asked American internet users for their overall assessment of the role of digital technology in their lives, the vast majority thought it was a good thing.

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But over the past 18 months, concerns about the personal and social impact of technology have grown, reaching a peak last week during Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s convention grill about his company’s power and its impact on American life. More broadly, the concerns are compounded by headlines about “heavy strains on ‘always-on’ technology”, the emergence of a “tech shock” caused by people’s disillusionment with the online environment, and the fears of before a digital dystopia.

There are also comments and studies on the impact that the use of digital technologies can have on people’s well-being, their stress levels, their likelihood of suicide, their performance at work and in society, their ability to concentrate and their ability to concentrate in the age of information overload; their ability to modulate levels of connectivity and overall happiness.

Faced with these growing concerns, Elon University’s Pew Research Center and Imagining the Internet Center asked technical experts, academics, and mental health professionals?
About 1,150 experts were involved in this unscientific takeover. About 47% of respondents expect that digital living will do more harm than good over the next decade, and 32% say people’s well-being will do more harm than good.

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The remaining 21% expect that people’s well-being will not change significantly compared to the current situation.(See the About This Expert Survey section for more information on who these experts are and how this sample structured.) Continue to improve various aspects of life. They also realize that there is no turning back. At the same time, hundreds of them proposed interventions over the next few years that they believed would alleviate the problems and highlight the benefits. In addition, many hopeful respondents also agree that there will be harm in the future, particularly for the most vulnerable.

Participants asked to explain their answers, and most wrote in-depth articles that provide insight into both promising and worrying trends. They allowed to answer anonymously, and many did; their written comments also included in this report.