Will technology make us free? Mathias Klang @klang67
Jun 19, 2015
Will technology make us free?Mathias Klang @klang67
Social media
Douglas Adams
Anything 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.
the ability of agents to make choices free from constraints
Constraints of time & geography
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Jimmy Wales
Organizing the world’s information, and making it universally accessible.
Facebook gives people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
…And they all lived happily ever after. The end.
Performance lifestyle
My amazing coffee
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
Law
Contextual & programmed social
rules
ArchitectureControl in
analogue world
Control in digital world
Blog
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999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
Normalizing the abnormal
What social media wants
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 final interface: We have your money – now we want your mind
What social media provides
The end of ignorance, curiosity boredom
“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
What the future holds?
if you're not paying for
something, you're not the
customer; you're the
product being sold
Digital sharecroppers
Interdependencies: it’s a question of balance
Convenience ≠ Free Will - but is it happiness?
Ignorance is strength
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
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