A close look every week at the science, news, media and more, inspiring the world to… Look Up.
Kids & Screens — the latest science and policy
Children's bodies are adapting to the positions their lives repeat — and right now, childhood repeats the look-down position for hours a day. Chapter 2 of the book is devoted to Tech Posture Syndrome in children: growing spines, developing eyes, and nervous systems still wiring themselves around the devices in their hands. Protecting the next generation is not a chapter of this movement. It is the mission.
From Look Up: The New Science of Vitality in the Age of AI — the book's position, in its own words. Go deeper: the science behind Look Up.
The world’s first national law setting 16 as the floor for social media. · Australian Parliament — Parliamentary Education Office, November 29, 2024 · Our view: AGREE
At least 39 states plus DC now require schools to restrict student cellphone use. · Education Week (state policy tracker), June 28, 2024 · Our view: AGREE
The defining book of the kids-and-screens era tells the mind’s half of the story — the body’s half is ours to tell. · Penguin Random House (Penguin Press), March 26, 2024 · Our view: AGREE WITH CARE
Replace the phone-based childhood with a play-based one — norms travel further than warnings. · The Atlantic, March 13, 2024 · Our view: AGREE WITH CARE
The Surgeon General’s official advisory: social media can carry a “profound risk of harm” to kids. · U.S. Surgeon General / HHS, May 23, 2023 · Our view: AGREE
The APA’s first advisory on teen social media: training first, keys later — and never at the cost of sleep. · American Psychological Association, May 9, 2023 · Our view: AGREE
The engineers who built the attention economy, on camera: the pull downward is engineered, not accidental. · Netflix, September 9, 2020 · Our view: AGREE
The 2017 essay that started the modern kids-and-phones debate — built on patterns across very large datasets. · The Atlantic, September 1, 2017 · Our view: AGREE WITH CARE
The book behind The Look
Look Up — The New Science of Vitality in the Age of AI
Every verdict on The Look traces back to one book — the research, the stories, and the 20-Second Lift. By Dr. Jason Deitch, Dr. Gilles A. LaMarche and Dr. Jeff Langmaid.
