The digital age features titillating technologies, on-demand consumption, and information saturation. Technology has a unique capacity to offer a sense of greater connection, even as its actual workings may yield deeper forms of dislocation and alienation. While the marketing of new tech often highlights the potential for enhanced mobility, access, equity, and opportunity, the emerging evidence on the full range of impacts is beginning to tell another story. Among other challenges, there are nascent accounts of the effects technology is having on youth in particular, including disconcerting rates of anxiety, depression, and even aggression. Constant use of electronic devices may impair the ability to take responsibility for conduct, manage one’s emotions, and to develop strong bonds of empathy for others. Some tech pioneers have begun openly questioning their handiwork, and a larger coalition of former industry insiders has coalesced in order to confront the effects of social media and smartphones—with one even characterizing the dangers of technology saturation as a gathering “existential threat.”

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数字非暴力

数字时代的特点是技术刺激、消费按需、信息饱和。技术具有提供更大联系感的独特能力，即使它的实际运作可能会产生更深层次的错位和异化。虽然新技术的营销往往强调提高流动性、访问、公平和机会的潜力，但关于全方位影响的新证据开始讲述另一个故事。在其他挑战中，有一些关于技术特别是对年轻人的影响的初步描述，包括令人不安的焦虑、抑郁甚至攻击性的发生率。经常使用电子设备可能会削弱对行为负责、管理自己的情绪以及与他人建立强烈的同理心的能力。