We Make Our Tools And They Shape Us

We Build Our ToolsAnd They Shape Us:

How Lifestreaming Is Shaping Web Culture

Stowe Boyd

Author, /Message, Front Man for The /MessengersSocial tools and their impact on business, media, and society

Apologies

“We make our toolsand forever after they shape us.”

Marshall McLuhan

Social Tools

“A new category ofsoftware is emerging,software intended toaugment socialsystems. […] I call

these social tools:software intended toshape culture.”

Tools

Streaming, Part 1

Social = Me First

Social Scale

Culture

Streaming, Part 2

Flow

Time

Media

Society

Work

The War On Flow

Stowe [email protected]

www.stoweboyd.com

CreditsNew York Stock Exchange Floor by Thomas J. O'Halloran, 1963 (LOC) - Pingnews.com -http://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/508717757/

Messerschmidt Blueprint - Synapse - http://www.flickr.com/photos/synapse/1384561426/

Color Animated fractal ........TendrillonGsr06102006 - SantaRosa OLD SKOOL -http://www.flickr.com/photos/santarosa/261923723/

The finest flow ever - Populux!! - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/56571568/

Creative Media Jam - Hospital - Factoids - http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoids/194864309/

Carp Streamer - m louis - http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-louis/140402492/

Passport - Gravitywave - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravitywave/366712496/

Crowd walking to buses and cars after the fireworks - Jill - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lij/1739672/

Closeup of newspaper stack - Binarydreams - http://www.flickr.com/photos/binarydreams/251690096/

Close Quarters - NNNNIC - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sqrt/907934275/

Glider With Maneuverable Wing Extremities - Curious Expeditions -http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/962399228/

Self-Centered? - TruthLying - http://www.flickr.com/photos/truthlying/30486286/Late evening sunlight through clouds - reinholdbehringer - http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinholdbehringer/448792619/Water Streaming Past - Inkswamp - http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkswamp/97457480/

Untitled - pjvandi - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pejmanphotos/731315170/

Town Clock - joesflickr’s - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joesflickr/711358450/

Aidan’s First Airline Ticket - Aidan Love - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanlove/369638970/