Featured experts in the film

Matt Richtel,
New York Times Journalist

Matt Richtel is an American writer and journalist for The New York Times. He was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series on distracted driving. He has written stories about the science of heavy computer use; computer use in schools; the rise of obesity around the globe; and, in 2019, a new series on the rise of drug-resistant infections. Richtel obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS from the Columbia School of Journalism.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Spitzer, Neuroscientist

Manfred Spitzer, M.D., Ph.D. is Medical director, professor, and chairman (Head of Department) of the newly established Psychiatric Hospital at the University of Ulm (Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie), Germany.

His research activities focus on the interface between cognitive neuroscience and psychopathology, using multimodal neuroimaging techniques, such as event-related potentials, functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and experimental neuropsychological methods to study psychiatric symptoms, syndromes, and disorders.

In 2004 he established the Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning (Transferzentrum für Neurowissenschaften und Lernen [ZNL]), for which he is the director.

Dr. Gordon Neufeld,
Development Psychologist

Dr. Gordon Neufeld is a foremost authority on child development and has spent more than 45 years as a clinical psychologist with children and youth. An international speaker, a best-selling author (Hold On to Your Kids), and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm. Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change. His Neufeld Institute provides an online educational institute and worldwide charitable organization devoted to applying developmental science to the task of raising children. Dr. Neufeld’s life's work has been to help adults provide the conditions for children to flourish. He is a father of five and a grandfather to six.

Thomas Hübl,
Author

Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since 2004, he has taught and facilitated programs with more than 100,000 people worldwide, including online courses which he began offering in 2008. The origin of his work and more than two decades of study and practice on healing collective trauma is detailed in his book Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds.

Prof. Dr. Paula Bleckmann

Prof. Dr. Paula Bleckmann is a professor for media education at the Alanus University. She studied biology in Konstanz and did her doctorate at the University of Bremen with a thesis on media pedagogical advice for parents with Prof. Heinz Buddemeier. At the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), she headed the prevention focus of the interdisciplinary research team in a project on "Computer game and internet addiction in Germany" for five years. She completed her habilitation in health education at the PH Freiburg in 2014. Paula Bleckmann is the first chairwoman of the MEDIA PROTECT eV association, which developed the ECHT DABEI prevention project (www.echt-dabei.de). She is also a member of the Working Group on Prevention of Internet-Associated Disorders at the Federal Ministry of Health and a member of the VDW Advisory Board.

Dr. Kenneth Wesson, Neuroscientist

Kenneth Wesson is a former higher education faculty member and administrator. He delivers keynote addresses in San Jose, CA, on the neuroscience of learning for educational organizations and institutions throughout the United States and overseas. His audiences range from early childhood specialists to university-level educators. Wesson’s international audiences have included educators and administrative officers from six of the world’s seven continents. His research is frequently published and referenced in Parents Magazine, HealthNet, and the journal Brain World.

Prof. Dr. Edwin Hübner

Prof. Dr. Edwin Hübner is a prominent expert and author with a specialized focus on media education. He is a professor for media education at the Free University of Stuttgart. His research areas include Media concepts for schools, Cultural and anthropological aspects of life with technology and media. He demands that in media education the physical and mental development of the child is given much greater consideration than before. In his opinion, media education should be thought of in a much broader way than is commonly assumed. 

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