my iphone self & facebook family: is technology changing us?
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My iPhone Self & Facebook Family: Is technology changing us? Mathias Klang @klang67
What humans do?
Does technology doesn’t matter?
Sociotechnical change (rip Eugene Polley)
In America I had arranged with a gramophonefirm to make some of my music. This suggested the idea that I should compose something whose length should be determined by the capacity of the record.
Igor Stravinsky (1925)
Being digital liberates us from one format tyranny. Our habits lock us in.
Determinism: techno or otherwise
Controlled by convenience
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
"Our gadgets have eliminated the need to remember such things anymore."
Joshua Foer
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.
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.
Communication technology
Authorship & copyright are inventions of technology
Exodus 20:14
THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)
”It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern....”
Tolstoj War & Peace
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
2006
"Out of this anarchy… what was governing the infinite monkeys now inputting away on the Internet was the law of digital Darwinism, the survival of the loudest and most opinionated.”
Andrew Keen: Cult of the amateur (2007)
Normalizing the abnormal
Optimism: conversation & convenience
Pessimist talk
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
Truman show delusion
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 world’s 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
Private or Personal
What wordfeud did
Not addiction but tics
Technostress & Insomnia
Who is in control?
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
ArchitectureControl in
analogue world
Control in digital world
if you're not paying for
something, you're not the
customer; you're the
product being sold
BubblesThe Filter Bubble (Eli Pariser 2011)
the daily me
Cass Sunstein Republic.com (2002)
Information obesity
What does it all mean?
Can we quit? If we quit will we have deep thoughts?
Choice kills? The Net Delusion (Evgeny Morosov 2011)
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 [email protected] or @klang67
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