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the cognitive challenges and attention problems that result from overuse of digital technology.

Almost all respondents (95 per cent) owned at least two digital devices

bio-behavioural sciences

Respondents who spent more than six hours daily on their digital devices were more likely to report experiencing forgetfulness in the past month compared to those who spent fewer hours

the survey for first time shows this connection between overuse or higher use of digital devices and more complaints of memory disturbances in Hongkongers

"digital immigrants"

In his 2008 book iBrain, Small talks about "digital natives"

The survey also found poor dietary and exercise habits among the respondents

The term digital dementia was coined a few years ago in South Korea, after doctors reported seeing young patients with memory and cognitive problems, conditions that were more commonly linked to brain injuries.

Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul, South Korea: "As people are more dependent on digital devices for searching information than memorising, the brain function for searching improves whereas an ability to remember decreases

Dr Manfred Spitzer, a German neuroscientist and author of the 2012 book Digital Dementia: What We and Our Children are Doing to our Minds,

warns that children who spend too much time on electronic devices could experience irreversible deficits in brain development.

multitasking teens

The devices are not all bad," he says. "It's really about content, context and dose

balance the online time with offline time

почти всё свободное время тратила на игры, а для личной гигиены использовала общественные бани. На жизнь Сяо Юн зарабатывала, время от времени устраиваясь кассиром в интернет-кафе. В них же она обычно спала.

В начале 2015 года о такого рода «интернет-кафе-беженцах» в Японии был снят документальный фильм. В картине сообщалось, что многие японцы из-за отсутствия постоянной работы вынуждены жить в небольших каморках в интернет-кафе, где проводят большую часть свободного времени, сидя в сети и играя в онлайн-игры.

So what makes Peeple different from say AirBnB where you rate your tenants? Jeff Hancock, a professor of communications at Standford, says it comes down to turning your interpersonal relationships into transactions.

But in 15 or 20 years, all those reputation systems might be combined. And they might totally dictate your life: what jobs you get, what insurance you’re offered, who you date, where you live

Fertik predicts that in just five years, companies won’t post jobs, but rather plug in their desires into a database to find the right person. Jobs will come to you, he says. But part of that selection process will probably include parameters outside someone’s direct qualifications

If financial success, personal success, housing, food options, all that is tied into this reputation system, the people who have the understanding and the money to make that reputation system work for them will succeed

Со многими покупателями я встречаюсь лично

На этом и зарабатывает Вейз, предлагая клиентам прокачать аккаунт за них

Виртуальные баталии иногда продолжаются выяснением отношений в реальной жизни.

The question asked now for these high-level eSports players is the same as any athlete: what’s next

With eSports, you practice as a team, you have to spend just as many hours as a professional athlete.

ou have to play on a big stage in front of a lot of people. It’s really stressful

The merging of real and projected worlds will produce a seamless experience – a complete illusion of being part of a film.

A truly dramatic change will come once scientists discover a way to manipulate senses directly through the brain. That is when cinema will quite literally start to merge and replace real life

One will be able to choose between real-life exploration or a fictional quest with chosen characters. Since memories will be recorded, one would be able to include anyone they have ever encountered, including favorite celebrities or fictional heroes.

Just as 3D films are only exciting for the first few minutes, characters, events and conflicts will continue to drive cinema of the future.

The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.

we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.

The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.

Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production

The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.

And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries

the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time

We can’t wait to see Netflix open up laserdisc rental shops next

“Ultimately, new technology can reveal desires that already exist on a deep level in society,” says Rafman of the works, which pull from and amplify the seductive forces of video games and cinema. “This desire to escape completely into another dimension has existed for a long time.”

Virtual reality’s recent resurgence in prominence begins with Oculus and its visionary 23-year-old founder, Palmer Luckey. In 2012, the then-18-year-old with an affinity for retooling defunct ’90s VR headsets took a hacked-together model to Kickstarter with a funding goal of $250,000. A month later, over 10,000 individuals contributed $2.4 million to the campaign for what was at the time mainly aimed at being a gaming peripheral. Two years later, Facebook wrote a check to buy Oculus VR for $2 billion

“This is not a drill. It’s real. It’s a moment,” says Michael Naimark, Google’s first resident virtual reality artist (like Char Davies, he’s listed as a pioneer of VR on Wikipedia). “And the arts community can play a huge role in propagation.

Throughout art history, art has reflected the prevalent social relations of the time. It makes sense, then, that the most relative and innovative art forms being produced today would mirror our reality—one defined by a perceived sense of agency in a world filled with invisible algorithms and clicks baited to us by past clicks. The internet spoils us with infinite choice: opportunities to invent our personas, refashion our self-brands, optimize our lives, and enhance our experience. But with mega-corporations quietly holding the joystick, can we really self-determine our destiny?