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Smart Phones, Stupid People:Will technology make us stupid?

Mathias Klang @klang67

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Is technology smart?

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Man vs Machine

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The augmented human

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Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca 1069 to 664 B.C)

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Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

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Swedish telephone c:a 1896

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Writing as external memories

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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.

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

Joshua Foer

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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.

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End of communications monopoly

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Normalizing the abnormal

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This is not a phone

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Always online

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The end of boredom

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“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

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Performance lifestyle

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My awesome coffee

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Social networks

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Dunbar’s 150

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Stimuli or relations

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

Sherry Turkle

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All the worlds knowledge

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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

Jimmy Wales

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Surplus is harder to deal with scarcity...

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Brain candy vs useful information

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The end of curiosity

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Information obesity

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Altered patterns of work, play, learning, sleep...

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Private or Personal

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What wordfeud did

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Not addiction but tics

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Technostress & Insomnia

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Who is in control?

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Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

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What does it all mean?

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Does quitting the Internet mean that we will have big, deep thoughts? Did everyone in pre Internet days have BDT?

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Old stupidity or new intelligence?

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It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another…we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. – A bee doubtless would [use] … instincts as a criteria.

Charles Darwin

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Are those of us who remember the analogue age fortunate or unfortunate?

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THANKS!

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Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67

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