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Smart Phones, Stupid People:Will technology make us stupid?
Mathias Klang @klang67
Is technology smart?
Man vs Machine
The augmented human
Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca 1069 to 664 B.C)
Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)
Swedish telephone c:a 1896
Writing as external memories
Plato – The Phaedrus (ca 370 bc)
…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.
"Our gadgets have eliminated the need to remember such things anymore."
Joshua Foer
Douglas AdamsAnything 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.
Blog
ger 1
999
Goo
gle
1999
End of communications monopoly
Normalizing the abnormal
This is not a phone
Always online
The end of 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
Performance lifestyle
My awesome coffee
Social networks
Dunbar’s 150
Stimuli or relations
"If we don't teach our children to be alone all they will be is lonely"
Sherry Turkle
All the worlds knowledge
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
Jimmy Wales
Surplus is harder to deal with scarcity...
Brain candy vs useful information
The end of curiosity
Information obesity
Altered patterns of work, play, learning, sleep...
Private or Personal
What wordfeud did
Not addiction but tics
Technostress & Insomnia
Who is in control?
Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)
if you're not paying for
something, you're not the
customer; you're the
product being sold
What does it all mean?
Does quitting the Internet mean that we will have big, deep thoughts? Did everyone in pre Internet days have BDT?
Old stupidity or new intelligence?
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
Are those of us who remember the analogue age fortunate or unfortunate?
THANKS!
Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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