smart phones, stupid people: will technology make us stupid?

Smart Phones, Stupid People:Will technology make us stupid?

Mathias Klang @klang67

Is technology smart?

Man vs Machine

The augmented human

Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca 1069 to 664 B.C)

Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

Swedish telephone c:a 1896

Writing as external memories

Plato – The Phaedrus (ca 370 bc)

…you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

"Our gadgets have eliminated the need to remember such things anymore."

Joshua Foer

Douglas AdamsAnything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can

probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five

is against the natural order of things.

Blog

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999

Goo

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1999

End of communications monopoly

Normalizing the abnormal

This is not a phone

Always online

The end of boredom

“My fear is that these technologies are

infantilising the brain into the state of small

children who are attracted by buzzing

noises and bright lights, who have a

small attention span and who live for the

moment.” Prof. Susan Greenfield

Performance lifestyle

My awesome coffee

Social networks

Dunbar’s 150

Stimuli or relations

"If we don't teach our children to be alone all they will be is lonely"

Sherry Turkle

All the worlds knowledge

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

Jimmy Wales

Surplus is harder to deal with scarcity...

Brain candy vs useful information

The end of curiosity

Information obesity

Altered patterns of work, play, learning, sleep...

Private or Personal

What wordfeud did

Not addiction but tics

Technostress & Insomnia

Who is in control?

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

What does it all mean?

Does quitting the Internet mean that we will have big, deep thoughts? Did everyone in pre Internet days have BDT?

Old stupidity or new intelligence?

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another…we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. – A bee doubtless would [use] … instincts as a criteria.

Charles Darwin

Are those of us who remember the analogue age fortunate or unfortunate?

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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