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Five minutes on being humanBrian Calhoun
“I learned just enough philosophy in college to fuck me up for the rest of my life.”
“I learned just enough philosophy in college to fuck me up for the rest of my life.”
– Steve Martin
Why think about this stuff?
Evolution
Dystopia
Day-to-day humanity
Four things to talk about
Crazy rate of change.
Why think about this stuff?
Crazy rate of change.
We as humans need to evolve faster.
Why think about this stuff?
Crazy rate of change.
We as humans need to evolve faster.
Questioning your humanity will become more prevalent.
Why think about this stuff?
Crazy rate of change.
We as humans need to evolve faster.
Questioning your humanity will become more prevalent.
Attention economy is kicking in.
Why think about this stuff?
Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Evolution
Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
Evolution
Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Evolution
Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Can model nature (fractals, physics, golden ratio)
Evolution
Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Can model nature (fractals, physics, golden ratio)
Make tech more human. Do higher-order stuff.
Evolution
Privacy’s not dead. It’s evolving.
Eyesight, language, biology, web.
We are conscious actors in this role!
Can model nature (fractals, physics, golden ratio)
Make tech more human. Do higher-order stuff.
Raise the bar for yourself & those around you.
Evolution
Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
The web: TV 2.0? Radio 3.0? Phonograph 4.0?
Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
The web: TV 2.0? Radio 3.0? Phonograph 4.0?
Do we give people bread-and-circuses?
Dystopia
How are we doing against machines?
Re-captcha, Amazon Mechanical Turk
The web: TV 2.0? Radio 3.0? Phonograph 4.0?
Do we give people bread-and-circuses?
And about the Distraction Economy...
...a quote...
“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the information might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee
what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies -- the development of a vast
mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for
distractions.”
“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the information might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee
what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies -- the development of a vast
mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for
distractions.”
– Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, in 1958
Small day-to-day humanity
Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
“What am I creating?” Keep track in a diary.
Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
“What am I creating?” Keep track in a diary.
“People like to hear their names. I’m no exception. Please call my name!”
Small day-to-day humanity
Be daring and honest. Allow people to fail.
Question authority. Then create your own.
Watch your brain diet. What are you taking in?
“What am I creating?” Keep track in a diary.
“People like to hear their names. I’m no exception. Please call my name!”
Be gracious. Say thank you. A lot.
Thank you!
This’ll be up on SlideShare.net
I’m Brian Calhoun and I work for SilverStripe
