Being human in a techno-democracy

Mathias Klang @klang67

Social Media is beautiful but today I shall explore my cynicism

We make technology: The artifact.

We love technology: Progress.

We are technology: Cyborgs.

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

Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

The enlightenment & Theory of democracy 2.0

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

Joshua Foer

Blog

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Goo

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1999

End of communications monopoly

Technology changes us

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

Sherry Turkle

Boredom leads to daydreaming leads to creativity.

Social media is constant access to impulses.

Love is blind: Narratives of arab spring

People, not technology make revolutions

Revolutionary technology was not digital

We prefer the narrative

Imperialism, paternalism & technolove: Kony2012 Narrative

Stones in glass houses

We still don’t get social media

Ppt & ipads ≠ educationDemocracy ≠ followersFriending ≠ marketing

Bread & CircusesDemocracy is an activity, social media demos is illusion of motion

In closing: more access, less motion?

I suspect grandmother was right…

In an age where conversation may be dying… Don’t slouch, look people in the eye, shake hands firmly & listen without tweeting.

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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