Taking on Technofundamentalism: Alex Krotoski at TransFUSION

Taking on Technofundamentali

smAleks Krotoski

Creative Skillset, 5 December 2013

Question your sources

Technology is neither good nor bad.

Nor is it neutral.

What’s outside the frame?

Context

Design agendas

Digital identityOnline identity

namespace collision

Are we sure X is Y?

I, Y, consist of A, B and C.

Google

Usefulness can be predicted

Just enough to be magical

All sources are created equal

Quantitative judgements are

superior

Facebook

Be your tools

Be your categories

Be your wallet

Life Beats

The web never forgets

It cannot make that judgement

we are the problem

don’t assume learners have special

knowledge

just because she jumped off a cliff..

online and digital identities are

different

digital literacy is more than learning to use a keyboard and mouse

developers don’t have your well-being as a

priority

expect it adapt to you

consider flexibility

remember the biases

we understand how power works offline, but we don’t understand how it works

online

they invent new products, processes, systems and

devices that produce profound socio-cultural transformations

With thanks to the Nominet Trust for their support

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