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

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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 klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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