The Extroverted Reader
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The extrovertedreader
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
Social reading
To be social is to share…
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
The problem with stimuli
What technology
wants
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?
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
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 librarian "I have never renounced the old ways.” Lucius Malfoy
Hello to Jason Isaacs
There is no book… there are still readers
Culture is inevitable, copyright is not
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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