What technology measurably does to everyday life
Most writing about technology and everyday life is assertion. This site is the opposite: 38 articles in which every claim about an effect carries a number, a named source, a year, and a plain note on what the study cannot tell you. Where a question has not been answered, the article says so rather than filling the space.
Findings are graded in three levels, and the grade is visible before you read a word. The grading rules are published in full. For a commercial example of workplace measurement in practice, see Monitask.
Sections
Screens and young people
What the research actually shows about children, teenagers and the devices they use.
5 articles · 32 sourced findings
Attention and habit
Addiction, distraction, sleep and the numbers people repeat about them.
5 articles · 35 sourced findings
Privacy and security
Tracking, breaches, scams and account security, separated from vendor marketing.
5 articles · 32 sourced findings
Social media and communication
Wellbeing, relationships, misinformation and the way people talk to each other now.
5 articles · 34 sourced findings
Work
Remote work, monitoring, productivity, automation and finding a job.
6 articles · 35 sourced findings
Technologies
Connected devices, headsets, networks, cloud, and how to read a forecast.
5 articles · 33 sourced findings
Skills
Searching, verifying, behaving well and basic digital competence.
3 articles · 17 sourced findings
Society
Connectivity, environment, money, and what is honestly known about long-run effects.
4 articles · 22 sourced findings
What makes this different
Three rules produce everything on this site.
Nothing is asserted without a citation. Every number is attached to a named study or statistical release, the year it was published, and a link. If a figure could not be verified against its primary source, it does not appear.
Interested sources are labelled. A large share of the statistics that circulate about technology are published by companies that sell the remedy — security vendors, consultancies, trade associations, job boards. Those figures still appear here where they are the only measurement available, but they are named as what they are.
Absence of evidence is reported. Every article carries a section on what has not been measured, and on the widely repeated claims that turn out to trace back to a marketing survey, a press interview or a unit conversion error rather than to research.
The site is unsigned editorial. It does not sell anything, does not carry advertising, and has no relationship with any organisation cited.