Consciously Digital Institute Blog

A new group of roles is emerging — focused not on building more technology, but on helping people live well with it. These professionals work at the boundary between humans and digital systems: attention, habits, relationships, and mental health. Problematic social media use among adolescents is already measurable worldwide. WHO reports that 11% of adolescents in its study across 44 countries and regions showed signs of problematic social media behaviour, and 12% were at risk

Excessive screen time might contribute to increasing dementia likelihood 4-6 times in the next decades, a new study claims. The authors use existing US public data and past research to make predictions about brain health and society. The study tries to understand two main things: 1) How screen time (phones, TV, computers, tablets) affects the brain 2) How dementia rates might change in the future as a result They say that dementia/Alzheimers is impacted by two factors - scree

You know when you ask ChatGPT something simple like "how to cook a pie," and it tells you how amazingly smart and great your question is? This is called "sycophantic," i.e., agreeing with you on everything. It turns out that we prefer "sycophantic" conversations, even when we know they aren't good. Boris Johnson, UK ex-prime minister, described it best although he probably didn't know what I am about to share with you: “You know the answer but ChatGPT always says: ‘Oh, your q