responsibly connected : how not to be consumed by technolgy

RESPONSIBLECONNECTIVITYHOW NOT TO BE CONSUMED BY TECHNOLOGY

Larry PortCo-Founder and Chief Software ArchitectRocket Matter, LLC

CHALLENGEPRETEND IT’S 1987

Where do we even start?

!94DECEMBER

!07JUNE 2008

Cyber-Bullyinga new challenge for parents and kids

personal privacy violations with tragic results

SAFETYFIRST THINGS FIRST

Oh noooooo!

25 people died due to a train engineer texting

2009

DISTRACTED DRIVING DEATHSSource: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

10,839

5,474

DRUNKDRIVING DEATHSSource: MAAD

450,000

2009

DISTRACTED DRIVING INJURIESSource: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

450,000 23 Times more likely a texting truck driver will have a near crash or crash.Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

4Times more likely drivers on cell phones will have a crash involving an injury.Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety 81% Number of drivers

admitting use of cell phone while drivingSource: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

19% Number of adults who smoke cigarettesSource: Centers for Disease Control

PUT IT DOWNwww. DISTRACTION .gov PRIVACY

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING’S PRIVATE,IT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S BAD

“The claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others

Alan Westin, Privacy and Freedom, 1968

“We canʼt tell you what they eat for dinner. But we can tell you where they live. And their phone number, who they live with, whether they have voted, and much, much more.

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1991

Tim Berners-LeeYou ca n r un, but you ca n't Hide

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2611/2302

project gaydar

*and give up your personal information

GET EDUCATEDWHAT CAN WE DO?

http://www.eff.org/

YOUR BRAIN ON THE INTERNET

Actions and thoughtscarve out neural pathways, like rivers carve a course.

neuroplasticity

the nature of hypertext is distraction

Multi-taskers are “suckers for irrelevancy. Everything distracts them.”

RISKS

ANXIETY

TENSION

SCATTERED THOUGHTSINABILITY TO FOCUS

OVERLOOK INFORMATION

MISINTERPRET INFORMATION

WHAT TO DO?

BATCH PROCESSWORK IN CHUNKS.

CHECK EMAIL & UPDATES AT DISCRETE TIMES

WHAT TO DO?

READ BOOKSEXERCISE THE NEUROLOGICAL PATHWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH DEEP CONCENTRATION

FAMILY TIMEHI HONEY ... HONEY?

WHAT TO DO?

MAKE RULESGET A DEVICE DISH. SHUT OFF THE ROUTER

AT SPECIFIED TIMES. MAKE IT A GAME.

ADDICTEDTHANK YOU!

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