The Digital Dining Table

How Screens and AI Are Changing Our Children, Relationships, Attention and Family Life

When does technology bring a family closer — and when does it take the room? Screens now sit inside childhood, marriage, work, school, prayer, sleep and the family meal. But the central question is not simply how many hours we spend online. It is what technology makes possible, what it interrupts, and whether it serves the human activity we actually value. Evidence-led and practical rather than anti-technology, the book asks a simple question that can change the way families make digital choices: what did the technology displace — and what did it make possible that otherwise would not have happened?

• The child at the table, the parent looking down
• Designed to bring you back: how attention is engineered
• Evidence, not alarm. Attention, not abstinence.

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By Jacob Francis (Joshi ji) · 2026 · English