--- title: Our Digital Lives Are Spilling Into Our Real Lives description: Our digital lives are spilling over into our real lives, start-ups that want to market to seniors are moving in with them and more. canonical: https://time.com/4569767/our-digital-lives-are-spilling-into-our-real-lives/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-14T17:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:19.847Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Our Digital Lives Are Spilling Into Our Real Lives og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4569767/our-digital-lives-are-spilling-into-our-real-lives/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Our Digital Lives Are Spilling Into Our Real Lives twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Our Digital Lives Are Spilling Into Our Real Lives by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 14, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 14, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Our digital lives are spilling over into our real lives — with bad consequences.**](https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2016/11/10/online-risks-real-world-consequences-new-microsoft-research-shows/#sm.0000gh88wtjlvfk6x4v2ivutkfo3l) By Jacqueline Beauchere at Microsoft **2\.** [**Start-ups that want to market to seniors are moving in with them.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/12/501819337/for-startups-marketing-to-seniors-a-novel-idea-move-in-with-them) By Ina Jaffe at NPR **3\.** [**Here’s how to use web search history to detect lung cancer.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-10/microsoft-shows-searches-can-boost-early-detection-of-lung-cancer) By Dina Bass at Bloomberg Technology **4\.** [**Soon this routine exam will test for birth defects, too.**](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/88dfbf46c8ff451f81fded7f46567be9/testing-if-pap-smears-offer-early-peek-birth-defect-risk) By Lauran Neerdaard at the Associated Press **5\.** [**Just in time for Black Friday: Free shipping is a lie.**](https://www.fastcompany.com/3061686/free-shipping-is-a-lie) By Neal Ungerleider in Fast Company  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4569767/our-digital-lives-are-spilling-into-our-real-lives/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4569767/our-digital-lives-are-spilling-into-our-real-lives/"},"headline":"Our Digital Lives Are Spilling Into Our Real Lives","datePublished":"2016-11-14T17:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:19.847Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4569767/our-digital-lives-are-spilling-into-our-real-lives/","keywords":["Innovation","Cancer","digital","Start Ups","Black Friday","birth defects"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4569767/our-digital-lives-are-spilling-into-our-real-lives/","name":"Our Digital Lives Are Spilling Into Our Real Lives"}}]}] ```