dr. anusuya chatterjee, a health economist and fellow at the milken institute where she has led studies on obesity, medical technology and chronic disease prevention. she was also created the influential milken institute best cities for aging index and co-authored a chapter of the recently published book "the upside of aging. and all theser experts around of applause. [applause] a few introductory remarks of self disclosure, i took my work e-mail incessantly, according to my daughter, and everything about snapchat also comes from my 13-year-old daughter. [laughter] if you do feel the need to be addicted to something online, feel free to be addicted to any any of my stories. the experts will endorse that. everything else can be a problem for you. the digital age has brought up a lot of wonders and i think we all know that from our smart phones, computers and laptops. we can connect with somebody across the globe, a grandparent on skype, can order every single thing imaginable with one click. we have apps that manage diabetes. we have seen all of these wonders but we have also seen a dark si

dr. chatterjee, go ahead. >> thank you for having me and thank you for having me on this panel. there are so many positive things about having technology and i don't wanting to about that but maybe i will look at the data evidence which finds more towards the negative side of using technological -- using too much of digital technology and that includes using computers, i pads, ipods, you know, other smartphones and all these things and as an economist humans are using technology in such a way that is actually affecting their health. people are making the choice to be so obsessed with technology. there was a recent study and they found that waking up among all the american smartphone use ers -- users, two out of three wake up checking and consumers have checked 25 times daily. some of them are so upset, it looks not that much but has been increasing, actually check their smartphones 200 times per day. so we are very obsessed with digital technology. what is happening that is leading to more lifestyle. so we have this workplace which is growing and sitting in computers for hours a