Societal Change
The over-digitalisation of childhood is driving serious, large-scale societal changes and we are only just beginning to see the consequences.
Human change is happening now
The digitalisation of everyday life has profound consequences for our children.
This cultural shift is causing ‘Human Change’ - where children’s core development is shaped not by real people and real-world experiences, but by the addictive algorithms behind their screens.
Human Change
Like climate change, Human Change urgently requires a coordinated global effort.
Human Change is the term used to describe how technology is changing what it means to be human. Increasingly, real life interactions are being replaced or diluted by virtual ‘connectivity’, manipulative algorithms, and platforms that exploit our attention and attachment - and children are most at risk.
Like climate change, Human Change urgently requires a coordinated global effort.
Human Change is the term used to describe how technology is changing what it means to be human. Increasingly, real life interactions are being replaced or diluted by virtual ‘connectivity’, manipulative algorithms, and platforms that exploit our attention and attachment - and children are most at risk.
What is Human Change?
How is this Impacting Our Children?
Time online is increasingly replacing time spent engaging in the real world. This is contributing to an epidemic of loneliness and a loss of essential life skills, including emotional intelligence, resilience, and the ability to nurture and commit to in-person relationships.
Epidemic of Loneliness
We are the most connected generation in history – and the loneliest. The technology which promised to make us more connected has only deepened social isolation.
Digital Addiction
We live in the attention economy, where advertisers and technology companies’ success depends on how long they can keep us online. As a result, technological design often fuels addictive behaviors.
Loss of Essential Life Skills
Overreliance on digital technology and AI is changing how young people learn, behave, and communicate. Essential life skills are being lost.
Recommendations
The things we can do, day to day, that help preserve our children’s humanity in the digital age.
Solutions
Human Change is happening now.
Only together can we solve it.
Protecting children in the digital age will require system-wide changes to ensure they can still have essential experiences to build skills needed to thrive in the future: facing and overcoming real-life challenges and making personal commitments, without the interference of technology to do the hard work for them.
Only together can we solve it.
Protecting children in the digital age will require system-wide changes to ensure they can still have essential experiences to build skills needed to thrive in the future: facing and overcoming real-life challenges and making personal commitments, without the interference of technology to do the hard work for them.
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