The dark side of social media

Mathias Klang@klang67

OMG wtf???

unpack

technology we use to organize our lives controls us

In America I had arranged with a gramophonefirm to make some of my music. This suggested the idea that I should compose something whose length should be determined by the capacity of the record.

Igor Stravinsky (1925)

Oudehaske: what every designer should know

VERKEERSBORDVRIJ!!

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?

Living the cyborg dream

Man & Machine

The augmented human

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

Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

Swedish telephone c:a 1896

Writing as external memories

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

Joshua Foer

Ludicrously brief history of computers

hollerith

Generation 3 (1964-72)

The digital is the original & everything is copy

Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

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

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

Normalizing the abnormal

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

My awesome coffee

Social Networks & Dunbar’s 150

Stimuli or relations

Mourning online: or what’s so great about meeting people?

Old stupidity or new intelligence?

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

Change!

Monotask queuing

Not knowing

Waiting by THE phone

Only 30 kg

Limitless 303 grams

The end of boredom

Social responsibility

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

The individual

Controlled by convenience

Should technology

make us think?

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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