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