should systems make us think?
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Should systems make us think?
Mathias Klang @klang67
How did we end up here?
Cyborgs are so 1980
The augmented human
Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca 1069 to 664 B.C)
Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)
Generation zero
hollerith
memexVannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945
Generation 3 (1964-72)
Information Wants To Be Free. Information also
wants to be expensive. ...That tension
will not go awaySteward Brand (1985)
World wide web (an open standard)
Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)
Killer apps 1995: Browser wars
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
John Perry Barlow (1996) A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
We cyborgs
“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
Pessimist talk
The Norwegian discussion
This is not a phone
Always online
The end of boredom
Performance lifestyle
My awesome coffee
Truman show delusion
What does it all mean?
Who is in control?
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
What do the people who control what we can do, think?
What will they let us think?
A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To
Your Interests Right Now Than People
Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg
if you're not paying for
something, you're not the
customer; you're the
product being sold
Performance goes bad…
Kanaler
Medical news
Tough Questions
Participation in discussions
Medical advice online
Dealing with critics
Friending patients or families
Using social media in official communication
Google docs, gmail, facebook, doodle, slideshare…
Basic stuff
RTFM – read the license.
Law (it’s still there).
Policies and guidelines
Training, seminar, discussion
Develop pre-emptive social media norms
Build bad systems?
Build systems that support thought.
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
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