Digital Dopamine
Why We're Numb, Disconnected, and Relentlessly Pursuing Synthetic Wants that Leave Us Empty.
Chasing synthetic desires. Forgetting real human needs. Digital Dopamine visualizes the feeling of the world sleepwalking into disconnection. Our brains, wired for survival, have been rewired for profit - endlessly stimulated by screens, apps, and algorithms exploiting dopamine pathways once meant to drive real human needs. Through screen-lit portraits, Stanford scientific studies, and human stories, Digital Dopamine visualizes the invisible crisis: how we’ve traded presence, empathy, and community for synthetic wants that never satisfy.
At a moment when society feels fractured, distracted, and indifferent to collective wellbeing, this story reveals an unseen driver behind it all: digital dependency and control. As dopamine loops shape modern behavior, society grows increasingly disconnected - from one another, from empathy, and from what it means to be human. At a time when global conflict feels imminent and trust in institutions collapses, understanding how technology exploits our most basic motivations has never been more urgent. Digital Dopamine asks a fundamental question: What if the biggest threat to humanity isn’t war or disease - but the invisible addiction making us indifferent to each other?
