The French Government’s Push to Curb Children’s Screen Time We are arguably still in the “Wild West Era” of the Web. The French Government wants to change that and curb screen time and access to addictive platforms for children and young adults
How to Stay Grounded Online - a conversation with Justin Hanagan The Realists interviews Justin Hanagan, the author of the brilliant newsletter "Stay Grounded Online" - whose goal is to establish healthy boundaries with the internet
5 stories about Big Tech to improve your digital literacy skills Unmasking illusions about Big Tech: on AI hype, hoaxes and privacy violations
Share with Care In this brave new world of AI generated images, sharing photos of yourself online may have unintended consequences... and even more so for children
Seeing is believing? Welcome to the post-truth era disrupting our sense of reality Generative AI tools are advancing at breakneck speed, disrupting our perception of reality. But there is a silver lining to all this.
The Small Town in France Aiming to Kickstart a Global Conversation about Phone Addiction It's not a ban - but the start of a movement to make excessive screen time distasteful
From the Attention Economy to the Addiction Economy Pinocchio's Pleasure Island may be an apt metaphor of our times
Woman vs. Artificial Intelligence: the LEGO Challenge On human creativity, AI Hype vs. Reality, and the power of play. Read until the end for a Realists twist
Visions of the Future: How to Be a Realist in a Techno-Optimist World Will the real world be rendered boring and bland by spatial computing? Is this future inevitable? And what would the great Neil Postman have said about all this?
My Sandboxed “Candy Bar” Phone: Curbing Distractions and Safeguarding Privacy My system to curb distractions and increase my data privacy: a separate sandboxed smartphone that holds distracting apps
The In-Betweeners Since my childhood, I have been an in-betweener: one foot in the digital world; one foot in the real world. I'm still doing that today, in 2024 - spending half my days completely offline. Here is what I learned from this.