Pew Research just released a report on Digital Life. I'm generally a 'glass-half-full' person when it comes to technology. I recognize that, like any tool, the impact is related to how you use it (good or bad). There is so much potential in digital connectivity that we overlook, from economic development and social access to exposing the bad guys. How long would it have taken to find out that the government was keeping immigrant children in tents in the desert without social media or to generate a "critical mass" of attention to give enough voice to #BlackLivesMatter, #Parkland or #MeToo to change the conversation of a nation? Besides, there are so many technophobes frantically trying to prove how awful technology is (phones, games, social media-- if it electronic, it's bad), that I figure the topic is more than well-covered.
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Pew Research: The positives of digital life
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Pew Research just released a report on Digital Life. I'm generally a 'glass-half-full' person when it comes to technology. I recognize that, like any tool, the impact is related to how you use it (good or bad). There is so much potential in digital connectivity that we overlook, from economic development and social access to exposing the bad guys. How long would it have taken to find out that the government was keeping immigrant children in tents in the desert without social media or to generate a "critical mass" of attention to give enough voice to #BlackLivesMatter, #Parkland or #MeToo to change the conversation of a nation? Besides, there are so many technophobes frantically trying to prove how awful technology is (phones, games, social media-- if it electronic, it's bad), that I figure the topic is more than well-covered.