Science and technology let you to create the person you want to be. How does the technology we create today enable future selves? What is the impact on identity creation, individual privacy and self-value?
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1. How WE create I H+ Summit * June 2010 Heather Schlegel * heathervescent
2. My Interest We don’t pro-actively create identities Structures encourage behaviors Exploration of my personal brand June 2010 | Humanity Plus 2
3. The Mass Age Marshall McLuhan Douglas Hofstadter Jaron Lanier NY Times June 2010 | Humanity Plus 3
4. How I think about this The way we create, experience and respond to technology Value-sets: And the underlying values encoded in a system June 2010 | Humanity PlusPhoto Credit: Machine Project 4
5. Who are you? Always the same person? June 2010 | Humanity Plus 5 I’m not.
6. Fragmented (Online) Identities Anonymity Pseudonyms When your Identity takes on a life of it’s own? Success as stagnation Pigeon-holed Strange Loops: Living in another’s mind June 2010 | Humanity PlusPhoto Credit: Viss 6
7. Extending our Identities Identify Externally Brands, Cars, Devices, Objects Groups: Institutions, Communities, Movements Music Multiple Identities Private Anonymous Alternates: Avatars, Game Role-playing Physical modifications Plastic surgery Tattooing, Beauty enhancements Cognitive enhancers Attention, focus, “energy” Research, Training and Drugs June 2010 | Humanity Plus Photo Credit: Brazil 7
8. The Doors of Expression Second Life Gaming Worlds Blogging, Twitter & MySpace Personal Brands Facebook ID Lockdown ID Theft: Single White Female June 2010 | Humanity Plus 8
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10. Do we get lost? (I get lost) Avatars: Embodiment = Immersion Caught in streams of influence The Audience Effect Participation & Motivation Privacy June 2010 | Humanity Plus 10
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12. Self-Value What do we end up valuing? What types of identities are valued? How does one value self? June 2010 | Humanity Plus 12 ?
13. Ownership of our Souls Who owns your identity? Projected Perception Remembered Which parts are (truly) ours? Betrayal “I don’t even see you, I see the mental image of you in my mind.” “I have conversations with the person you are in my mind.” June 2010 | Humanity PlusPhoto Credit: EvonneAmoration 13
14. The Truth is Easier Real time life tracking & Public Diaries Blogging (& Life Streaming) Twitter Flickr Physically 23 & me Zeo Collective History June 2010 | Humanity Plus 14
15. And the point… Identity is not created in a vacuum Iterative, Evolves The medium is the mæssage is the distraction. In the end, I may create WE June 2010 | Humanity Plus 15
16. Finally: Who are you? I – I hardly know, sir, just at present –at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. - Lewis Carroll m June 2010 | Humanity Plus Photo Credit: Jeff Christiansen 16
17. Thank You Heather Schlegel aka heathervescent, The Purple Tornado puissant@heathervescent.com www.heathervescent.com June 2010 | Humanity Plus 17
Notes de l'éditeur
Success as stagnation:Rockstars: play only your most successful stuff, not what necessarily interests you nowPigeon-holed into what/who the mainstream
Going beyond our self: Mental MindsetsMusic: sets mental stateGame Character Creation (role-playing)You do to influence other people’s perception of you. You think other people’s perception will change.I feel better about myself when I perceive myself this way.Influence self-value.