THE STORY
The cultural backlash against our tech overlords is here. A grieving mom takes on Big Tech; an inner city school bans phones to bring back focus and social connection; Gen Z trailblazers flock to phone-free hangouts to reclaim connection with each other and the real world.
All of that happens against the backdrop of a rapid AI revolution. As our kids confide in chatbots, we are already seeing news clips of teen suicides. A relationship with tech gone wrong. Will we learn from our mistakes with social media and fix AI before it’s too late?
YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE traces the current moment of reckoning with addictive tech. The film lays bare the human cost of technology companies having operated with minimal oversight since their meteoric rise. And it explores how we can start to fight back to protect what’s most precious about humanity.
The film features interviews with Tristan Harris (The Social Dilemma), Vivek Murthy (Former US Surgeon General), Frances Haugen (Facebook Whistleblower), Cal Newport (Author: Digital Minimalism), and many more.
Along our journey we follow a grieving mom taking on Big Tech; a young entrepreneur designing a kinder internet; an inner city school deciding to go phone-free; and a group of young people kickstarting a movement of phone-free hangouts that are taking the world by storm.
Through intimate portraits and expert interviews, the film investigates how unregulated digital tech threatens to erode our capacity to think, feel, and connect with each other – and how we can harness cultural norms, better design, and new regulatory frameworks to put technology back in the service of humanity.