What can a wiki do for me?What’s the blogging

businessmodel?I wish they would talk less loud

on their mobiles!

Our lawyers won’t allow it

Crime planned over the Internet!

What can a wiki do for me?What can a wiki do for me?

A new virus! E-mail all your friends!

Wikipedia contains errors!

Big corporations will die!

True democracy at last!

Infrastructureand

Society

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamski/167272833/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mezzoblue/100572824/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggiew/39244607/

Attitudes

Skills

Tools

1. Mobile Communications

2. Internet

19th Century

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgeezer/2041955880/

• Sewage (health)

• Water (health)

• Railway (time/space)

• Telegraph (time/space)

• National mail (time/space)

• Underground public transport (time/space)

• National print media

• Scramble colonization of Africa

• Time standards

• National states

• Museums / libraries ‘for the people’

• Sports / excercise

• Schooling system

• Jobs & unemployment

• World War I

• Nobel Prizes

• Taylor’s management

• Population registries

• General suffrage

• Central banks

• Representative democracy

ME

YOUNATION STATE

regional community

ME

YOUNATION STATE

regional community

circle of empathy

Attitudes

Skills

Tools

20th Century

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/437342078/

• Electricity grid (health/time)

• Highways (time/space)

• Telephone (time/space)

• Gas mains (health/time)

• Airlines (time/space)

• Mass tourism

• Mass migration

• International refugees

• Global treaties

• International collaborative science

• Multinationals

• Global brands

• TV and radio broadcasting

• Global economy

• Super powers, cold war

• World War II

• International stock trading

• Global money system

• UN, EU

• Refrigeration

• Space experiments

• State visits

• Huge air forces

• Int. Court of Justice

ME

YOUGLOBENATION

circle of empathy

Help Iran after the earthquake!

Help Bangladesh after the flood!

Free Kuwait!

Fight hunger in Burkina Fasso!

Attitudes

Skills

Tools

21st Century

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/2105641530/

• Mobile communications (time/space)

• Internet (time/space)

New level of complexity?!

ME

YOUGLOBE

nation

circle of empathy

(global neigh-bourhoods)

• time & space = 0

• connect globally without ‘middle man’

• end points not fixed, I am my address

• publishing = sharing your shit = free

• group forming = free

Attitudes?

Skills?

Tools?

Conscious process?

Speed it up?

Monster Theory

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbaltimore/1412386/

KILL CULTURETECHNOLOGY EMBRACE

Martijntje Smits

Adapt

Monster TheoryKill : Xenotransplants

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/2481197228/

Embrace : Plastics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_q/123578793/

Adapt tech : Biodegradable plastics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/this-is-my-life/2204403187/

Adapt culture : Death

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paopix/202256047/

KILL CULTURETECHNOLOGY EMBRACE

Martijntje Smits

Adapt

KILL EMBRACE

Input for Debate

All the objections you’ll

ever hear

The wackiest ideas you’ll ever

hear

KILL CULTURETECHNOLOGY EMBRACE

Martijntje Smits

Adapt

Transition Process

CULTURETECHNOLOGY

Adapt

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hb2/128258663/

Adapt technology : Active transition, help make it palatable

http://www.flickr.com/photos/damodhar/227559318/

Adapt culture : Be the transition, live as if it’s already happened

Reflective Process

CULTURETECHNOLOGY

Adapt

• work place

• availability

• work-life balance

• job as something you can own yourself

• close colleagues don’t need to be in your org

• org as something with purpose, regardless of structures in it

• transparancy, from forced to casual

• individuals in ad-hoc teams doing complex projects

• mobility

• systems and structures as tools, not ‘laws of nature’

• measuring results vs efforts

Attitudes?

Skills?

Tools?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/more-cowbell/2043049674/

Attitude!

• pro-active

• self-reflective

• ‘own’ your world

• be amazed

it’s about you as individual, with global reach!

• share

• be approachable

• be empathic

• trust the network

• interdependence

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lauramary/2037899104/

Skills!

• social media information literacy

• understanding systems and structures as tools (and hierarchies as limit cases)

• understanding group dynamics

• understanding complexity

• Anchoring (focus in the midst of distraction)

• Social filtering

• Connecting with other

• Be human on-line (in a mediated environment)

• Giving and constructing meaning

• Evualating, authenticating

• Validating

• Creative and critical thinking

• Pattern hunting/matching

• Navigating networks of meaning

• Embracing uncertainty

• Contextualisation, fast switching

Tools!

• visualization

• protocols

• away from the laptop screen

• designed for group dynamics

• designed for uncertainty

• design for evolution

• create rhythm

• focus on individual value within the group

• create public and private spaces

• combine internal and external perspectives

• design for different levels of participation

• combine familiarity with excitement

Wenger, et al

What monsters live in your sphere of influence?