Surviving Apps and Clouds

Mathias Klang @klang67

Ours is not the digital divide

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

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

We change focus

What is a hotel room?

What users want & why they are dissatisfied

Technology matters

Controlled by convenience

From the stone axe to iPhone via post-its

"Our gadgets have eliminated the need to remember such things anymore."

Joshua Foer

Threat

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.

Threat perception

Douglas Adams

Anything 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.

Mobile living: Beware consultants bringing metaphors

Computer resources over a network

Cloudwashing

Personal clouds

What, who, how much? Why?

Did you find a license, manual or rulebook? Did you read it?

This is not a phone

Always online

The end of boredom

Monotask queuing

Not knowing

Waiting by THE phone

Remember this?

The biggest cocktail party ever

Blog

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999

Goo

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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)

“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

Public authorities: how do you want us to talk to you?

You’re just not funny!

Private or Personal

Performance lifestyle

Truman show delusion

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

Optimism: conversation & convenience

Pessimist talk

What we aren’t talking about?

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

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

Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

Personalizaton

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

”It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern....”

Tolstoj War & Peace

What does it all mean?

Old stupidity or new intelligence?

Are those of us who

remember the analogue

age fortunate or

unfortunate?

The advantages are enormous…

1. Understand how it will help you

2. Understand how it changes you and yours

3. balance. Find yours, don’t let others tell you.

4. Managing expectation

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THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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