The Sport of Bridge for a Sustainable “Digital Transition”
Mariano Dimonte
Abstract
The process of digitalization that colonizes every aspect of human life and infiltrates every crevice of the social fabric by mean of devices, applications, algorithms, platforms, and artificial intelligence (AI), pushes us to reflect on the evolutionary destiny of the human brain in an increasingly dissolved and dehumanized society.
In particular, mass screen-addiction and other antisocial digital-related phenomena as cybercrime and
cyber insecurity, probably the most paradoxical and counterproductive side adverse effects of digital,
urgently require countermeasures to protect human brain, collective intelligence, and society as a whole,
in order to make "digital transition" more sustainable.
The main purpose of this contribution is just to problematize the issue of the devastating consequences
of digital and to raise the hypothesis that the systematic promotion of a team mind sport as Bridge in
schools can result an useful “digital detox” intervention to someway combat screen-addiction and to
promote sociability.
