Check out my blog post for Psychology Today, in which I discuss whether we need the concept of Human Downgrading, promoted by the Center for Humane Technology, to prevent the advent of future dystopias. How about Human Upgrading, instead?….
Up the Down Staircase: Human Downgrading & Digital Dystopias
Psyche's Circuitry 
Human Downgrading not really defined. The notion of humans’ social development lagging behind technological development is not new. But a new and very different, (and downgrading) psychology is definitely arrived.