Will Technology Make Us Free?

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

ger 1

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 klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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