1. iPhone Living: On using and being
abused by technology Mathias Klang @klang67

2. Understanding = input

3. Perception = output

4. Life = input & output

5. Input: rigor & reliability

6. Rigor

7. Reliability

8. Output = honesty
& integrity

9. & technology doesn’t matter?

10. Sociotechnical change (rip Eugene Polley)

11. Determinism: techno or otherwise

13. Is technology smart?

14. Man vs Machine

15. The augmented human

16. Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca
1069 to 664 B.C)

17. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

18. Swedish telephone
c:a 1896

19. Writing as external memories

20. …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.
Plato –
The Phaedrus (ca 370 bc)

21. "Our gadgets have eliminated the need
to remember such things anymore." Foer
Joshua

22. 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.

23. Communication technology

24. Authorship & copyright are inventions of technology

25. Exodus 20:14
THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

27. ”It was as if a light had
been Nookd in a carved
and painted lantern....”
Tolstoj War & Peace

28. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

29. 2006

30. "Out of this anarchy…
what was governing
the infinite monkeys
now inputting away on
the Internet was the
law of digital
Darwinism, the survival
of the loudest and most
opinionated.”
Andrew Keen: Cult of the amateur
(2007)

31. Normalizing the abnormal

32. Optimism: conversation
& convenience

35. Pessimist talk

40. This is not a phone

41. Always online

42. The end of boredom

43. “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

44. Performance lifestyle

45. Truman show delusion

46. My awesome coffee

47. Social networks

48. Dunbar’s 150

49. Stimuli or relations

50. "If we don't teach our children to be
alone all they will be is lonely"
Sherry Turkle

51. All the world’s knowledge

52. Imagine a world in which every single
person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human
knowledge.
Jimmy Wales

53. Surplus is harder to deal with scarcity...

54. Brain candy vs useful information

55. The end of curiosity

56. Altered
patterns of
work, play,
learning,
sleep...

57. Private or Personal

58. What wordfeud did

59. Not addiction but tics

60. Technostress & Insomnia

61. Who is in control?

62. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

63. Control in
digital world
Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world

64. if you're not
paying for
something,
you're not the
customer;
you're the
product being
sold

65. Bubbles
The Filter Bubble (Eli Pariser 2011)

66. Cass Sunstein Republic.com (2002)
& the daily me

67. Information obesity

68. What does it
all mean?

69. Does quitting the Internet mean that we will
have big, deep thoughts? Did everyone in
pre Internet days have BDT?

70. Choice kills? The Net Delusion
(Evgeny Morosov 2011)

71. Why the KGB wants you to join
facebook

72. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

73. 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

74. Are those of
us who
remember
the analogue
age fortunate
or
unfortunate?

75. THANKS!

76. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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