how technology and communication are changing societies

szymon sikorskiby

Gottfried WillhelmLeibnitz

last person to have all the knowledge

we live in times of data

technology influencesinformation

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information scaling

*1 EB = 1000000000000000000B = 1018 bytes = 1073741824 gigabytes = 1048576 terabytes

The amount of digital information

increases tenfold every five

years

information today

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1009/the-world-of-data/flat.html

information today

http://www.onlineeducation.net/internet

2001reading a paper(via a portal)

2011

calling family[or SMS]few sources

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downloading a paper or reading RSStexting family[social networks]thousands of sources

⌚ ⌚

we live in wiki times

wikipedia has changed our access to knowledge

wikileaks is changing our attitude to politics

technology influences culture

we live in a ”social media” culture

we live in a ”crowdsourced” culture

we live in a mashup culture

we live in a ”social media” culture

we live in a ”crowdsourced” culture

we live in a mashup culture

org. stephen fairey

technology influences education

TRENDS 2012

content curation, serendipity, social hacking,

Content curation „A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online”

looking for authorities

Serendipity

technology helps us find useful knowledge

Social hacking

hacking for social good

hacktivismreality hacking

QUESTIONS

do we have more time ?

are we smarter ?

are we more connected ?

it is not a question of being smarter or having more time

we are different and we need to adjust

we are changingvery fast

CONCLUSION

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