A summary of what we predict to be the main trends for Digital Wellbeing in 2019, and why we think the Humane Tech movement has been asking the wrong questions.
Philosophers of the past century cautioned on the risk of surveillance, data ownership and information curation that the internet would bring. But none of them foresaw that the apps and devices of our time would also be designed to addictive.
Whilst the jury is out on how much dopamine it takes to change our brains, I argue that technology is evolving too quickly for us to rely on ‘objective science’ to give us the answer. To find phone/life balance, we can do only one thing - look around.
Find out more about the Joy of Missing Out, and how we have the power to design our days, our lives, our history. By Christina Crook, author and founder at The Joy of Missing Out. Find out more at experiencejomo.com.
