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Contact: Anne Muscarella
(212) 918-2044
anne@high10media.com
Study reflects acceptance and embrace of existing technology, generational divide in perceptions of how the future of technology will impact our work, relationships, and sense of self. 72% of adults fear that in 10 years, relationships will be less authentic than today because of technology; 84% agree that technology has brought them closer to friends and relatives who live far away. Over 50% of Millennials age 18-34 agree they would be happier if they used their smartphone less; Millennials also more likely to integrate technology in their daily lives; from work to fitness to relationships.
(New York, NY) October 22, 2015 - The Webby Awards today released research which reveals that the Internet is improving our lives in more ways than ever before, with 85% of millennials using the Internet for shopping, 69% to help with repair and installation of personal and home items, 58% to manage health or fitness regimens, and 61% to streamline tasks at work. And the Internet is permeating our lives in surprising ways: 93% of millennials indicate they use their smartphone in bed, 79% in the restroom, and 43% while stopped at a red light while driving. The data supports this year's Webby Awards trend: " The Internet Can't Be Stopped," which explores how the rapid advancements of the Internet age are dramatically changing the way humans live, work, and interact in the world, calling into question philosophical questions that challenge our values, our place in society, and ourselves.

"Today the Internet is a more inexorable part of our existence than most of us care to admit, from the conference room to the bedroom and everywhere in between" said Webby Executive Director, David-Michel Davies. "The data shows the many ways people, and in particular millennials, have embraced technology as a tool to enhance daily living, but also a national conversation that has emerged about its role in the way we think about our work, relationships and ourselves.

The online survey was conducted by Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults aged 18+ on behalf of the Webby Awards in October 2015, and reveals that adults, and in particular Millennials (adults age 18-34), are embracing the integration of technology in their daily lives, and are both optimistic and skeptical about the ways in which technology will shape our future.

The Webby Awards have broken down the impact of the technology into three key areas of our lives:

Work
Seventy-two percent of adults say it's likely that unemployment will rise as new technologies will require fewer people to do the same amount of work, and 77% worry that if they don't keep up with the latest technology, they'll be less employable.

Millennials, who have grown up in the digital age, are more optimistic - when asked about how the Internet will impact their career over the next 10 years, nine out of 10 millennials (and notably 96% of students) agree the Internet will provide them with more access to jobs they're suited for, and 76% agree the Internet will make their job easier.

Relationships
Seventy-two percent of adults believe that in 10 years, relationships will be less authentic than today because of technology, and only 37% believe technology will allow them to maintain deeper relationships than they can today.

Despite this, a strong majority (more than 4 in 5) reports that technology has helped bridge a physical divide between loved ones, with 84% percent agreeing that technology has brought them closer to friends and relatives who live far away.

Self
A strong majority of adults (70%) concede that it's hard not to look at their mobile phone when it rings or vibrates. More than half (56%) of Millennials believe they would be happier if they used their smartphone less, and more than a third (38%) of this generation report having a relationship deteriorate due to technology or social media.

Despite the pull of technology, a majority of adults respect certain times and places where smartphones are less welcome, usually as it relates to personal interactions:

67% do not use their smartphones while eating dinner with family

65% do not use smartphones in a work meeting, although 45% of those with higher household income (100K+) admit to doing so

Over half (53%) admit to using their smartphone while in the restroom

Two-thirds (67%) do not use their smartphone while stopped at a red light while driving, although 42% of those with higher household income (100K+) admit to doing so

However, Millennials are more inclined to make room for technology in these areas:

51% ever use smartphones while eating with family

40% ever use smartphones while in a work meeting

Nearly 8 in 10 (79%) Millennials admit to using their smartphones while in the restroom, primarily driven by male millennials who pass the time by texting (63%), checking or updating social media (64%), checking/sending email (52%), or playing mobile games (46%).

43% use their smartphones while stopped at a red light while driving

The full research and methodology are available at: webbyawards.com/about/2015-white-paper/

The Webby Awards Early Entry deadline to submit works for consideration is October 30, 2015. Nominees will be announced April 2016, with the hallmark Webby Awards ceremony held later in Spring 2016.

Methodology
This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of The Webby Awards from October 8-12, 2015 among 2,020 adults ages 18 and older. The online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey results and methodology, please contact Anne Muscarella at anne@high10media.com.

About The Webby Awards:
Hailed as the " Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Advertising & Media, Online Film & Video, Mobile Sites & Apps, and Social. Established in 1996, The Webby Awards received nearly 13,000 entries from all 50 states and over 70 countries worldwide this year. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Google, Grey Goose Vitamin T, Advertising Age, YouTube, Internet Week New York, and The Guardian News Media, Cool Hunting, The Drum, GeekWire, VentureBeat, and Springwise.

Find The Webby Awards Online
Website: www.webbyawards.com
Facebook: Facebook.com/TheWebbyAwards
Snapchat: TheWebbyAwards
Twitter:@TheWebbyAwards
YouTube: www.youtube.com/webby

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Webby Awards Research Shows How The Relentless and Transformative Effects of the Internet Are Bringing Americans Face to Face with Humankind's Biggest Questions

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Contact: Anne Muscarella (212) 918-2044 anne@high10media.com Study reflects acceptance and embrace of existing technology, generational divide in perceptions of how the future of technology will impact our work, relationships, and sense of self. 72% of adults fear that in 10 years, relationships will be less authentic than today because of technology; 84% agree that technology has brought them closer to friends and relatives who live far away.

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As the Great Depression was getting firmly under way, John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the first quarter of the 21st century the workweek would be a maximum of 15 hours. Sounding curiously like the young Karl Marx describing communist society, he envisioned that the principal challenge facing the ordinary citizen would be "how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well."

Peter Evans is a professor emeritus in the department of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and senior research fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

Mid-20th-century analysts continued to voice optimism that automation would soon minimize the need to work. Key premises of their optimistic theories of "modernization" included the notions that leisure time would inevitably increase and that the "natural" trajectory of change in the structure of employment would lead to an increase in the availability of good jobs, with shifts of employment from agriculture to industry, and increasingly to less onerous white-collar jobs.

Unfortunately, that optimism was not borne out, even in the rich countries of the global North. As we head toward 2025 the role of work in society could hardly appear more different. Either people have been increasingly sucked into a vortex of punishing, oppressive work that absorbs many more hours than the standard 40 per week, or they have been excluded from any possibility of jobs that provide decent livelihoods. But this trajectory could be reversed with sufficient political will bolstered by grass-roots mobilization.

The path that has pointed us toward dystopia in the world of work has been paved by four related processes. Two are clearly political shifts. First, work has been degraded by the widespread adoption of a "neoliberal" public policy package including de-regulation of markets, diminished government support for collective bargaining, and trade liberalization. Relatedly, most countries have devoted shrinking resources for public investment to meet the massive unmet needs for key productivity-expanding, welfare-enhancing services, notably education, health care, and child- and elder-care.

The remaining two are economic forces, though we would argue that on closer examination they are also underpinned by politics-power imbalances and foreclosure of constructive alternatives. Technological change has been deployed to the disadvantage of workers, reducing the ranks of industrial workers who have historically been most able to collectively defend their standard of living, and displacing workers from a broad range of sectors. At the same time, politically protected monopoly control of the most fruitful productive capital-ideas ("intellectual property")-blocks workers' access to new means of production that could otherwise generate a flowering of new, productive work opportunities. In a second economic factor, employers have re-structured their organizations to fragment the workforce, by shifting production and employment across organizational boundaries (outsourcing, temp use), temporally balkanizing the workforce with irregular and contingent schedules, and geographic dispersion. As a result of these trends, inequality has grown and precarious work has become the dominant form of new employment in the contemporary global economy.

But four countertrends could, if nurtured, pave a very different path. First, some democratic states have moved to limit or partly reverse the advance of precarity, expanding the scope of social protection and the "social wage." While the Nordic countries continue many aspects of their social democratic legacy, particularly interesting are innovative policies emerging from less familiar sources. India now guarantees funding for rural communities to create jobs serving unmet community needs. Brazil's Workers Party, in power since 2002, has driven improvements in workers' standard of living with increases in the minimum wage, expansion of the Bolsa Familia welfare program, and other reforms. Precisely because these are modest "reformist" efforts by imperfect capitalist democracies, they suggest that reversing current trends toward precaritization is more broadly possible.

Chris Tilly is a professor of urban planning and sociology and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California-Los Angeles.

Second, strategies of mobilization and worker organization are essential, not just to provide political foundations for more progressive state strategies, but, even more important, to shift the calculus of employers away from "low road" strategies toward strategies more compatible with positive changes in the structure of work. New models of precarious-worker organizing, highlighted in other articles in this series, are particularly promising. Third is the resurgence of visions of the cooperative organization of production that would make "good" jobs a priority-akin to Robert Owen's utopian strategies in the early days of British industrialization-most recently flourishing in experiments labeled the "solidarity economy." Finally, while technological change has been used as a tool to degrade work and disempower workers, the current trajectory of technology also has subversive possibilities: the capacity for widespread, instantaneous, and costless sharing of ideas, and expanded means of de-centralized production through 3-D printers and other technologies. These new possibilities undermine capital's power and legitimacy and have the potential to support a modernized Owenite vision of collaborative "peer production."

None of these countertrends is sweeping the field, but they have proven impressively resilient and could be particularly powerful in combination. The obstacles to reversing the dystopian trajectory are indeed daunting. But equally daunting obstacles confront the long-term sustainability of the crisis-ridden, human potential-wasting, mean variety of capitalism currently dominant. A utopian world of work is not as remote as it seems.
For the Future of Work, a special project from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace, and what anxieties and possibilities they might produce.

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The Future of Work: From Dystopia to Utopia?

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As the Great Depression was getting firmly under way, John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the first quarter of the 21st century the workweek would be a maximum of 15 hours.

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Thinner than Thou by Kit Reed

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Monster by Michael Grant
7th book in the series

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everyone can work and produce their own wants/needs or big distributors

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schooling as we do now but more life skills lessons to be taught so that they have more than just school smarts.

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Legend by Marie Lu

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have everyone work to produce products (clothes, food, etc) and everyone gets exactly what they need in return for their labor in their trade.

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Have some sort of constitution that the government can rely on. The system can be changed as time goes on and as ideas change. More of a concrete government that cannot change or be overthrown

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Equal education system with equal opportunities. Same system and standards within every community

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No paper money. Eliminate social classes / desire for what others have. Everyone gets what they need, but still has room to explore themselves

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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Free time once work day is done and possible leisure hours for fun and games

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Enough that it can be useful but not too much that we have to depend on it

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at the end of the work day time is yours

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technology that is absolutley necessary (no cellphones or distractions like that) developments in medicine and useful discoveries like that will take precedence

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Get rid of paper cash but maybe have a trading system to things that you would want but have necessary things be rationed out

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less pressure on students as far as picking a career. Also teaching more valuable information young that can help children pick a career later on

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Teach survival skills and basic things but it mainly depends on the levels of education everyone already has

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get rid of money

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One main leader with a council to support and give advice

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One main leader

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democracy where there is a council of elected representatives and not a single leader