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What does it mean to be (dis)connected?

The dramatic rise in suicides, violence, and addiction signal a society disconnected from meaning and a social fabric fraying at its seams. With participation in organized rel...

Every day, young people connect with peers around the world in collaborative, technology-enabled learning experiences where they learn about and with each other. This session...

The Internet, to date, has been an open system that has enabled ideas to spread across borders, has created transformative new economies, and has helped people connect, create...

Connecting with others increases happiness and health, but people routinely forgo opportunities for positive connections with friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers. I...

What if technology could read and respond to emotions the way humans do? It turns out that it already can, and in this session you’ll see a mind-bending live demonstration of...

Small moments of joy are often the first to go when we're stressed or in a crisis. But they're actually a tool to restore our emotional well-being, says designer Ingrid Fetell...

As humans, we have an inherent and intense desire for connection. Social media and our always-on devices have simultaneously fulfilled and thwarted this desire, so what comes...

How are social media platforms contributing to the polarization and radicalization of the Internet? Can we reestablish control over our own information and digital society?


Across the industrialized world, millions of people live with sparse human contact.