Control, Cloud & Social Media

Control, Cloud & Social Media

Mathias Klang @klang67

Beware the metaphor

This is not a shopping cart

Computer resources over a network

Cloudwashing

End user services: social media

OMG wtf???

unpack

technology we use to organize our lives controls us

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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.

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.

How did we end up here?

"If we don't teach our children to be alone all they will be is lonely" Sherry Turkle

Living the cyborg dream

Man & Machine

Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

Swedish telephone c:a 1896

Writing as external memories

Ludicrously brief history of computers

Generation 3 (1964-72)

The digital is the original & everything is copy

Everything is miscellaneous

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

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Goog

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End of communications monopoly

Normalizing the abnormal

What, who, how much? Why?

This is not a phone

Always online

“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

Monotask queuing

Not knowing

The end of boredom

Waiting by THE phone

Only 30 kg

Limitless 303 grams

Social responsibility

digital liberates us, habits lock us in.

The state

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

The corporation

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

The individual

Controlled by convenience

Are those of us who

remember the analogue

age fortunate or

unfortunate?

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

www.digital-rights.net

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