When does technology bring a family closer - and when does it take the room?

Screens now sit inside childhood, marriage, work, school, prayer, sleep and the family meal. But the central question is not simply how many hours we spend online. It is what technology makes possible, what it interrupts, and whether it serves the human activity we actually value.

The Digital Dining Table follows children, parents, teenagers, couples, grandparents and migrant families through the new attention economy. It examines AI companions, phone-free classrooms, learning without geography, hybrid worship, work that followed us home, digital fasting, age assurance and the unequal realities of digital access.

Evidence-led and practical rather than anti-technology, the book asks a simple question that can change the way families make digital choices: What did the technology displace - and what did it make possible that otherwise would not have happened?

Inside this book:
- What did the screen replace - and what did it make possible?
- The child at the table, the parent looking down, the couple and the third presence
- Grandparents through glass, and the migrant family that never completely leaves home
- Designed to bring you back: how attention is engineered, and the phone-free classroom
- Digital fasting, age assurance, privacy, and where governments are drawing the line

Evidence, not alarm. Attention, not abstinence.