---
title: "Homo Connectus: The impact of technology on people’s everyday lives"
description: "This is a general discussion of the hallmarks of the new digital ecosystem and some of the changes that have occurred to people's relationship to each other and people's relationship to information and media."
date: "2007-11-05"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2007/11/05/homo-connectus-the-impact-of-technology-on-peoples-everyday-lives/"
categories:
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Leisure"
  - "Lifestyle"
tags:
  - "New Media Ecology"
---

# Homo Connectus: The impact of technology on people’s everyday lives

This is a general discussion of the hallmarks of the new digital ecosystem and some of the changes that have occurred to people's relationship to each other and people's relationship to information and media.