will technology make us stupid?
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Will technology make us stupid?
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)
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
digital liberates us, habits lock us in.
The state
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
The corporation
if you're not paying for
something, you're not the
customer; you're the
product being sold
The individual
Controlled by convenience
Are those of us who
remember the analogue
age fortunate or
unfortunate?
THANKS!
Mathias Klang [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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