counterculture and coevolution of the human-tool system
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CounterCulture & CoEvolutionof the Human-Tool System
Matthias Müller-Prove // mprove.de At Seminar Digitalität und Gesellschaft – HAWK Hildesheim, 27 May 2015
left: Stefan Woelwer /via fb right: photo cc mprove http://mprove.de/art/15/vandalism.html ; Streetart in Hamburg-Altona by Mittenimwald
trust
trust in digital information?
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump [1994] w/ John F. Kennedy /cc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump
Stalin with and without Kamenew, Trotzki. Photo: Staatliches Historisches Museum Moskau /via http://www.heise.de/foto/artikel/Wenn-Pixel-luegen-Bildoptimierung-oder-Faelschung-226920.html
trust in digital information?
trust in the sources
Casablanca [1942]
Casablanca [1942] /via http://mprove.tumblr.com/search/casablanca
global village
These new media have made our world into a single unit. The
world is now like a continually sounding tribal drum, where
everybody gets the message all the time.
–Marshall McLuhan
cf. Marshall McLuhan - The World is a Global Village (CBC TV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=96&v=HeDnPP6ntic
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We are overnewsed but underinfomed.
–Neil Postman
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Society is a system among people built on trust.
The digital society is a system among people and computers (and networks!), built on trust as well.
The world has turnedinto a digital global village.
counterculture1960s
augmenting human intellect
–Douglas Engelbart, 1962
The Demo
Stanford Research Institute - Augmentation Research Center 1963 - late 1970s Photo: Stewart Brand as camera operator backstage of „The Mother of all Demos“, 1968
The Whole Earth Catalog–Stewart Brand
Photo (cc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog Stu Brand /via http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590/06au/lectures/slides/Markoff_Nov_29.pdf
Stewart Brand
The DemoThe ARC of ARC
Bill Paxton at NLS Yoga Workstation, SRI-ARC early 1970s
Alohanet by Norm Abramson 1970s
Time Sharing by John McCarthy
1960s
Whit Diffey - The Rise of eCommerce
Computer Lib / Dream Machines, Ted Nelson, 1974Photo of Ted Nelson taken from Stephen Segaller’s Nerds 2.0.1
Computer Lib / Dream Machines, Ted Nelson, 1974Photo of Ted Nelson taken from Stephen Segaller’s Nerds 2.0.1
Computer Lib / Dream Machines, Ted Nelson, 1974Photo of Ted Nelson taken from Stephen Segaller’s Nerds 2.0.1
Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. That’s good news, maybe the best since psychedelics.
–Stewart Brand “Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums” in Rolling Stone, Dez 1972
Friedewald, Der Computer als Werkzeug und Medium, S. 355
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Steve Jobs’ „Reality Distortion Field“ Fig. (cc) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spacetime_curvature.png
The Crazy One – Tribute to Steve Jobs by Ken Segall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBw2cXWZS8
Steve Jobs’ perspective on life and the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEiSa6_EPA
attention
Kippfiguren – the image flips after 2-3 sec – subjective presence
#DADHS
the digital attention deficiency hyperactivity syndrom
- mprove 2015
Woelwer, von Luck, Kohler, Müller-Prove: Digitale Mythen – Sinn macht der Zuschauer, SocialMediaWeek Hamburg http://mprove.de/script/15/smw/index.html
iDisease Log http://mprove.de/script/15/hawk/idisease.html
New Needs in an Augmented World – Ludwig Zeller https://vimeo.com/25769471
New Needs in an Augmented World The objects explore the needs of a society predicated on the transfer
and consumption of information. How will we change through the symbioses of information technology and human mind?
– Ludwig Zeller https://vimeo.com/25769471
augmenting human intellect - Engelbart 1962
augmenting organizations - Engelbart 1992
augmenting humanity’s collective IQ - Engelbart 2000s
Human using Language, Artifact, Methodology / Training–Douglas Engelbart, 1962
Bill Verplank at interaction 11 http://hci-design.blogspot.de/2011/04/bill-verplank-at-interaction-11.html ab Minute 10
Co-Evolution of the human-tool system, Doug Engelbart, 1992 http://www.welchco.com/02/14/01/60/92/06/0103.HTM
Co-Evolution
of the human-tool system
We are shaping the tools. And the tools are shaping us.
-Marshall McLuhan
A quest for conspiracy: Is the bin real?
Matthias Müller-Prove // mprove.de At Seminar Digitalität und Gesellschaft – HAWK Hildesheim, 27 May 2015