what it means to be human
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5-minute presentation on being human at the Webstock 08 conference in Wellington, New Zealand.TRANSCRIPT
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Five minutes on being humanBrian Calhoun
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“I learned just enough philosophy in college to fuck me up for the rest of my life.”
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“I learned just enough philosophy in college to fuck me up for the rest of my life.”
– Steve Martin
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Why think about this stuff?
Evolution
Dystopia
Day-to-day humanity
Four things to talk about
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Crazy rate of change.
Why think about this stuff?
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Crazy rate of change.
We as humans need to evolve faster.
Why think about this stuff?
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Crazy rate of change.
We as humans need to evolve faster.
Questioning your humanity will become more prevalent.
Why think about this stuff?
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Crazy rate of change.
We as humans need to evolve faster.
Questioning your humanity will become more prevalent.
Attention economy is kicking in.
Why think about this stuff?
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Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Evolution
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Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
Evolution
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Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Evolution
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Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Can model nature (fractals, physics, golden ratio)
Evolution
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Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Can model nature (fractals, physics, golden ratio)
Make tech more human. Do higher-order stuff.
Evolution
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Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Can model nature (fractals, physics, golden ratio)
Make tech more human. Do higher-order stuff.
Raise the bar for yourself & those around you.
Evolution
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Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
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Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
The web: TV 2.0? Radio 3.0? Phonograph 4.0?
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Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
The web: TV 2.0? Radio 3.0? Phonograph 4.0?
Do we give people bread-and-circuses?
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Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
The web: TV 2.0? Radio 3.0? Phonograph 4.0?
Do we give people bread-and-circuses?
And about the Distraction Economy...
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...a quote...
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“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the information might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee
what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies -- the development of a vast
mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for
distractions.”
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“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the information might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee
what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies -- the development of a vast
mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for
distractions.”
– Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, in 1958
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Small day-to-day humanity
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Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
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Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
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Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
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Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
“What am I creating?” Keep track in a diary.
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Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
“What am I creating?” Keep track in a diary.
“People like to hear their names. I’m no exception. Please call my name!”
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Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
“What am I creating?” Keep track in a diary.
“People like to hear their names. I’m no exception. Please call my name!”
Be gracious. Say thank you. A lot.
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Thank you!
This’ll be up on SlideShare.net
I’m Brian Calhoun and I work for SilverStripe