should systems make us think?

Should systems make us think?

Mathias Klang @klang67

How did we end up here?

Cyborgs are so 1980

The augmented human

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

Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

Generation zero

hollerith

memexVannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945

Generation 3 (1964-72)

Information Wants To Be Free. Information also

wants to be expensive. ...That tension

will not go awaySteward Brand (1985)

World wide web (an open standard)

Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)

Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

John Perry Barlow (1996) A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

91 % Access to the Internet at home83 % Access to broadband at home7 % Never used a computer

Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

We cyborgs

“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

Normalizing the abnormal

Pessimist talk

The Norwegian discussion

This is not a phone

Always online

The end of boredom

Performance lifestyle

My awesome coffee

Truman show delusion

What does it all mean?

Who is in control?

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

What do the people who control what we can do, think?

What will they let us think?

A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To

Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

Performance goes bad…

Kanaler

Medical news

Tough Questions

Participation in discussions

Medical advice online

Dealing with critics

Friending patients or families

Using social media in official communication

Google docs, gmail, facebook, doodle, slideshare…

Basic stuff

RTFM – read the license.

Law (it’s still there).

Policies and guidelines

Training, seminar, discussion

Develop pre-emptive social media norms

Build bad systems?

Build systems that support thought.

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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