Knowledge workers in the 21st century need to be connected. Clients demand quick turnaround on issues, social media is essential for marketing, colleagues collaborate online, and news and events are disseminated rapidly through the Internet. However, we're starting to see the risks of 24-7 Internet usage, including distracted driving, constant intrusion of personal time, confidentiality risk, and even fundamental changes to the way our brains work. This completely original session explores the hazards of constant connectedness and what professionals can do to manage their risks.
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Responsibly Connected : How Not to Be Consumed By Technolgy
1. RESPONSIBLE
CONNECTIVITY
HOW NOT TO BE CONSUMED BY TECHNOLOGY
CHALLENGE
PRETEND IT’S 1987
Larry Port
Co-Founder and Chief Software Architect
Rocket Matter, LLC
Where do we even start? DECEMBER
!94
3. Cyber-Bullying
a new challenge for parents and kids
SAFETY
FIRST THINGS FIRST
personal privacy violations with tragic results
4. Oh noooooo!
2009
DISTRACTED
5,474 DRIVING
DEATHS
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
DRUNK
10,839 DRIVING
DEATHS
Source: MAAD
25 people died due to a train engineer texting
5. 23
2009
Times more likely a texting
truck driver will have a near
crash or crash.
450,000
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
DISTRACTED
DRIVING
INJURIES
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
4 Times more likely drivers
on cell phones will have a
crash involving an injury.
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
81% Number of drivers
admitting use of cell
phone while driving
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
19% Number of adults who
smoke cigarettes
Source: Centers for Disease Control
6. www. DISTRACTION .gov
PRIVACY
PUT IT DOWN JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING’S PRIVATE,
IT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S BAD
“
The claim of individuals, groups,
or institutions to determine for
“
We canʼt tell you what they eat
for dinner. But we can tell you
where they live. And their
themselves when, how, and to
phone number, who they live
what extent information about
with, whether they have voted,
them is communicated to others
Alan Westin, Privacy and Freedom, 1968 and much, much more.
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7. 1991
Yo u c a n r un, but
Tim Berners-Lee
yo u c a n't Hide
*and give up your personal information
project gaydar
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2611/2302
8. WHAT CAN WE DO?
GET EDUCATED
http://www.eff.org/
YOUR BRAIN
ON THE INTERNET
11. Multi-taskers are
“suckers for irrelevancy. ANXIETY
Everything distracts them.”
SCATTERED THOUGHTS
INABILITY TO FOCUS
RISKS
TENSION
OVERLOOK INFORMATION
MISINTERPRET INFORMATION
WHAT TO DO? WHAT TO DO?
BATCH PROCESS
WORK IN CHUNKS.
READ BOOKS
EXERCISE THE NEUROLOGICAL PATHWAYS
CHECK EMAIL & UPDATES AT DISCRETE TIMES ASSOCIATED WITH DEEP CONCENTRATION
12. FAMILY TIME
HI HONEY ... HONEY?
WHAT TO DO?
MAKE RULES
GET A DEVICE DISH. SHUT OFF THE ROUTER
AT SPECIFIED TIMES. MAKE IT A GAME.