Lawyers in the 21st century need to be connected. Clients demand quick turnaround on issues, social media is essential for marketing, colleagues collaborate online, and news and events are disseminated rapidly through the Internet. However, we're starting to see the risks of 24-7 Internet usage, including distracted driving, constant intrusion of personal time, confidentiality risk, and even fundamental changes to the way our brains work. This completely original session explores the hazards of constant connectedness and what attorneys can do to manage their risks.
27. 23 Times more likely a texting
truck driver will have a near
crash or crash.
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
28. 4 Times more likely drivers
on cell phones will have a
crash involving an injury.
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
29. 81
% Number of drivers
admitting use of cell
phone while driving
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
30. 81% Number of drivers
admitting use of cell
phone while driving
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
19% Number of adults who
smoke cigarettes
Source: Centers for Disease Control
We’ve spent the last two days talking about the glories of technology. This talk is about why it’s important to unplug. Now I know it’s odd that I have my life invested in an internet company and I’m up here talking about being disconnected. Next up is Jack Newton from Clio who will be discussing how computers can melt your skin off. And we’re flying in Larry Page from Google to give us an update on the Chinese Cyber Army.\n
This is MILOFest, where people program onscreen. We’re gonna go deep. My challenge to you for the next hour is to not use a connected device. Don’t tweet or anything. If you wanna get a last one in now, say “the speaker is conducting a disconnected experiment and is asking us not to tweet”. And if you start getting really antsy, right down on a piece of paper what time it is.\n
I’m not saying here that our connected technology is bad, any more so than Budweiser would say that alcohol is bad. Connect responsibly. \n\nWe have this conversation every time a new technology emerges. Even with the written word. Once upon a time, the alphabet was a technology.\n\nEven the most clueless of all companies gets what’s going on. These are stills from a Windows 7 Phone ad of phones getting in the way of life. Two people running while distracted. A father ignoring his kid. A husband ignoring his wife. How did this come to be?\n
I’m not saying here that our connected technology is bad, any more so than Budweiser would say that alcohol is bad. Connect responsibly. \n\nWe have this conversation every time a new technology emerges. Even with the written word. Once upon a time, the alphabet was a technology.\n\nEven the most clueless of all companies gets what’s going on. These are stills from a Windows 7 Phone ad of phones getting in the way of life. Two people running while distracted. A father ignoring his kid. A husband ignoring his wife. How did this come to be?\n
Now the web. Let’s get in touch with our HTTP-ness, shall we? Netscape Navigator 1.0. For most of us, it heralds the arrival of the world wide web. The world’s information is unleashed. Life is forever changed.\n
The iPhone revolutionizes the smartphone. We all now walk around with the Internet at our fingertips\n
Social networks connect people literally across time and space. Classmates reconnect from elementary school. New colleagues are made with similar interests. People now have a stream of social information to parse and keep up with. 2008 served as a tipping point, with 100M Facebook users and 100M Tweets per QTR.\n
Our brains are actually changing and morphing thanks to our obsession with the worldwide web.\n
Reports of studies dribble in of what we all know: that our family life suffers at the hand of our connected devices; that constant connectivity takes a toll on our ability to focus; and anxiety and distraction have increased.\n
Reports of studies dribble in of what we all know: that our family life suffers at the hand of our connected devices; that constant connectivity takes a toll on our ability to focus; and anxiety and distraction have increased.\n
Our privacy continues to erode. For those of you thinking “I have nothing to hide,” we’re going to look into what’s happening and why this is important.\n
Bullying has reached horrible new depths: What used to be restricted to the schoolyard is now 24-7 globally-accessible cruelty. Photo: Phoebe Prince who committed suicide after bullying in January 2010.\n
Another death. A personal invasion of privacy with tragic results for all three students involved. Pictured: Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide in September.\n
Before we get into the fun topics of Internet addiction, privacy concerns, cognitive abilities, societal implications, no discussion on living responsibly connected can begin without talking about life and death issues.\n
In 2009, a teenager in Staten Island walked into an open manhole while texting. One person’s response on a message board: “Open up all the manholes and send all the texting idiots into them!”\n
Earlier this year a bus driver in Portland, Oregon was caught on tape reading a kindle while driving on I-5.\n
On Friday, September 22nd at 4:22 PST, a Los Angeles Metrolink Commuter Train collided head on with a Freight Train. Both trains were heading towards each other at 40 miles per hour. 25 people died, 46 critically injured. 46-year-old Engineer, Robert M. Sanchez, distracted by text messages, apparently failed to obey a red, stop signal that indicated it was not safe to proceed.\n
Attorneys are not only busy, they’re in their cars ALOT. So the temptation to multi-task is pretty strong. But is it worth it?\n
Attorneys are not only busy, they’re in their cars ALOT. So the temptation to multi-task is pretty strong. But is it worth it?\n
Not good. And officials believe these numbers are under-reported.\n
Said one comment about texting while driving: “I've seen people driving while texting. It's probably equal to driving on 5 bottles of wine, 6 hits of acid and a 8-ball. Trust me, I know.”\n
Said one comment about texting while driving: “I've seen people driving while texting. It's probably equal to driving on 5 bottles of wine, 6 hits of acid and a 8-ball. Trust me, I know.”\n
If there are PI lawyers in the audience, especially ones specializing in automobile accidents in the audience, you’re going to be busy.\n
If there are PI lawyers in the audience, especially ones specializing in automobile accidents in the audience, you’re going to be busy.\n
If there are PI lawyers in the audience, especially ones specializing in automobile accidents in the audience, you’re going to be busy.\n
If there are PI lawyers in the audience, especially ones specializing in automobile accidents in the audience, you’re going to be busy.\n
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood held Distracted Driving summits in 2009 and 2010. Their message: put it down.\n
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Here’s a definition of privacy from Columbia professor, Alan Westin, who wrote Privacy and Freedom, a seminal book on the subject, in 1968. Seems like a reasonable definition. Note the careful use of the word “institutions”. Westin works a lot with business.\n
I found this quote in a book I read in college, The Naked Consumer, which examined the wholesale collection of personal data by marketing companies. What’s surprising about this quote?\n
That last quote came from an advertisement in 1991, shortly after Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. \n
The consolidation of data to form holistic profiles of consumers predates the web, but the Internet, where nearly every click is recorded in a database, pours gasoline on that fire. Google records every click of every search result. Your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, including who you associate with, what products you like, and what entertainment you enjoy, lie fallow for advertisers. If you read books on a Kindle, Amazon knows what books you’re reading, what page you’re on in those books, and what you’ve deemed important via your highlights and bookmarks. How rich was the irony when Amazon deleted, of all books in the world, 1984 from users Kindles? Any online retailer where you have an account knows what you’ve browsed and bought.\n\n
More data can be pieced together with Facebook info than you realize. In fact, MIT researchers were accurately able to predict which Facebook users were gay, even though they hadn’t revealed that information on their site. They used their associations to make the determination.\n
FarmVille, are sharing your personal information harvested from the social media site. Apparently, users willingly accept the wholesale collection of their personal Facebook information in return for the almost irresistible allure of growing virtual carrots. These companies, in violation of Facebook code, were sharing user identifiers with other companies.\n
FarmVille, are sharing your personal information harvested from the social media site. Apparently, users willingly accept the wholesale collection of their personal Facebook information in return for the almost irresistible allure of growing virtual carrots. These companies, in violation of Facebook code, were sharing user identifiers with other companies.\n
Our privacy continues to erode. For those of you thinking “I have nothing to hide,” we’re going to look into what’s happening and why this is important.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
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Our brains are actually changing and morphing thanks to our obsession with the worldwide web.\n
Your brain is comprised of cells called neurons which are very different than any other cells in your body. \n
Your brain contains 100 billion of them. They can be less than a millimeter in size or a few feet in length. The average neuron connects to around 1000 others in what are called synaptic connections. And those connections determine what we think and who we are.\n
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Your brain can change. It’s what scientists call ‘plastic’, or plasticity. The neural pathways in your brain can evolve or change based on your actions or thoughts. Mental circuits and pathways you carve in your brain can strengthened or weakened by your behavior.\n
It used to be theorized that reading text with links would lead to a deeper understanding. However, experiments where a control group read a pro and con article linearly, and the other group going back and forth with links had less understanding.\n
Does the net change our brains? A 2008 study in UCLA recruited 12 non-claustrophobic heavy web users and 12 novices. They put them in an MRI with goggles and a controller and mapped their brain.\n
The heavy web users showed a lot of activity in the dorsal prefrontal cortex. The novices did not. But after a week where they trained them to use the web, they found high activity in the dorsal prefrontal cortex. So the answer is yes, Web usage changes the ways our brains operate.\n\nThis area of the brain is responsible for problem solving and is also activated by crossword puzzles. So develops that faculty, and has benefits, especially for elderly who want to keep their minds sharp.\n\nBut what happens is that we get into quite literally hunting and gathering mode, scanning and reacting, and the neural pathways we develop for deep concentration and understanding atrophy.\n\n\n\n
Email, tweets, facebook updates, blog posts, create more interruptions and noise at a faster rate than ever before. It’s not uncommon for office workers to check their email thirty or forty times an hour. \n
Email, tweets, facebook updates, blog posts, create more interruptions and noise at a faster rate than ever before. It’s not uncommon for office workers to check their email thirty or forty times an hour. \n
Email, tweets, facebook updates, blog posts, create more interruptions and noise at a faster rate than ever before. It’s not uncommon for office workers to check their email thirty or forty times an hour. \n
Email, tweets, facebook updates, blog posts, create more interruptions and noise at a faster rate than ever before. It’s not uncommon for office workers to check their email thirty or forty times an hour. \n
Email, tweets, facebook updates, blog posts, create more interruptions and noise at a faster rate than ever before. It’s not uncommon for office workers to check their email thirty or forty times an hour. \n
2009 Stanford study gave a battery of cognitive tests to heavy multitaskers as well as light multitaskers. The heavy multitaskers were much more easily distracted by environmental stimuli.\n
Forgoing a culture of deep reading which is the basis of western civilization\n
Forgoing a culture of deep reading which is the basis of western civilization\n
Forgoing a culture of deep reading which is the basis of western civilization\n
Forgoing a culture of deep reading which is the basis of western civilization\n
Forgoing a culture of deep reading which is the basis of western civilization\n
Forgoing a culture of deep reading which is the basis of western civilization\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
Education is by far the most important tool in your belt for online privacy issues. Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) offer resources and monitoring of invasive privacy policies.\n\nAlso, it’s important to know the policies of the companies you use online. Before hopping onto a cloud provider, for example, do some due diligence and find out a bit about the company and read their terms of service, subscription agreements, or privacy policies. Resist the urge to swat away disclaimers and privacy warnings like flies.\n
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Let’s go back to this slide and contemplate it for a while, shall we? What I like about this ad is how true it rings. I noticed that every morning, our routine of getting the kids dressed up and off to school. Or my wife would try to talk to me and I be buried in a Wikipedia article about dog navels.\n
It used to be “woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.” Now, it’s “woke up, checked my email, checked the scores, got out of bed,”\n\n\n
This is very tricky and if anyone has any suggestions, I’d be happy to hear them. It’s a family issue, so some people may be perfectly fine with how they do things and I’m not here to judge. But if you’re part of the tradition of family meals and together time, how do you become more engaging than the connected devices?\n
Hello, my name is Larry, and I’m an Internet Addict. Which is like a alcoholhic working in a distillery. Actually, I’m not sure that I am, but it is something psychologists are exploring and there is treatment.\n\nTo some extent, we are almost powerless to unplug. If you think about it, there are three very powerful motivators that tap into our biology to make us wanna connect: 1) Economic Advantage 2) Shiny Objects 3) We’re social creatures\n