the extroverted reader 2.0

The extrovertedreader 2.0

Mathias Klang @klang67

Sumerian Logographs (c.a 4000bc)

“fndtlvsnvrydctngvrytmsmbdytrnsnthstgntththrrmndrdbk”

Phoenician alphabet only consonants (2000 BC).

“ifindtelevisionveryeducatingeverytimesomebodyturnsonthesetigointotheotherroomandreadabook” Greeks added vowels (1000 BC)

“ifindtelevisionveryeducating.everytimesomebodyturnsontheset,igointotheotherroomandreadabook.”

Aristophanes’ plays have punctuation (200 BC)

“Ifindtelevisionveryeducating.Everytimesomebodyturnsontheset,Igointotheotherroomandreadabook.”Lower case appears c:a 700 AD

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

Spaces between appear about 900 AD

The silent voids

An unchanging millennium

1970s Xerox develops e-paperScreens, battery life, weight,

2011

2010

2009200720021999

1993 2004

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Law

Contextual & programmed social

rules

ArchitectureControl in

analogue world

Control in digital world

What do we own?

Pushing connectivity

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

Social reading

To be social is to share…

The problem with stimuli

What technology

wants

Pinch & swipe

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

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

Radical Transparency: A manifesto of militant nudists?

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

Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

The bling factor

“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

Back to books: the e-reader

Cloudreading: Readability & Evernote… (& books)

Wonderful!!! But…

Life without serendipity?

The end of Swedish?

What about Book design?Essay: Craig Mod - Hack the Cover

http://craigmod.com/journal/hack_the_cover/

Changing the marketplace

More information

User generated content

Personal data & walled gardens

Pricing models & purpose of copyright

Alternative marketplaces

Endless personal library

The social reader: can the infinite be shared?

Changing the writer

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

The conservative illusion

Hello to Jason Isaacs

"I have never renounced the old ways.” Lucius Malfoy

The Semmelweis reflex

There is no book… there are still readers

Culture is inevitable, copyright is not

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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