Safe Clouds & Social Media

Safe Clouds & Social MediaMathias Klang @klang67

Beware the metaphor

This is not a shopping cart

Computer resources over a network

What, who, how much? Why?

Cloudwashing

End user services: social media

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

2006

"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)

Normalizing the abnormal

Optimism: conversation & convenience

Pessimist talk

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

Truman show delusion

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

Private or Personal

What wordfeud did

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?

Old stupidity or new intelligence?

Can we quit? If we quit will we have deep thoughts?

Are those of us who

remember the analogue

age fortunate or

unfortunate?

Remember this?

Monotask queuing

Not knowing

Waiting by THE phone

Technology changes us & we change it

The advantages are huge

My awesome coffee

The weakest link

Threating sytems

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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