The document discusses the impact of technology on human relationships and experiences. It notes that while technology allows greater connectivity, people feel more disconnected. It explores how focusing on documenting experiences through technology like social media can take away from truly experiencing moments. The document advocates reshaping habits to prioritize togetherness, experiences over memories, and reconnecting with others through communitas rather than technology. It concludes by encouraging investing in time well spent and togetherness.
17. Technology, Togetherness and Time
foster stronger connections.
…But something doesn’t feel “right.”
We are more “connected” than ever...
18. “Sleep” by Max Richter
NYC May 4th, 2018
“Our lives are very
data-saturated now,”
Mr. Richter said
“We’re always on our
screens, and mostly
we’re being sold
stuff. It squeezes out
a lot of richness of
what we are”
NOT Mike
Melillo
22. They can’t be
anonymous
He’s not yelling out his
opinion on the article…
Their content
options are
limited
He doesn’t read this
paper up to 150x/day
… and he’s not sharing something he likes by
cutting/pasting clippings on the train window
23. We have become the pioneers and prototypes for the instincts,
reality and morality of this ‘digital self’ in it’s relative adolescence.
There is no comparable historical precedent.
We’ve been
split in two.
We now have
a digital self.
28. I know what I’m starting to sound like
Damn kids with
yer godawful
Snapface crap!
When I was your
age, “group chat
drama” ended
with real fisticuffs
44. Sofia
April 30TH 2018
"Empathy will
set us free. I
hope to help teach
empathy skills
someday once I,
myself, have
developed a true
understanding of
what that means."
45. The ironies are substantial.
We turn toward AI for
conversation just at the
moment we are in flight
from conversation from
one another.
Sherry Turkle
46. “Before we work
on artificial
intelligence why
don’t we do
something about
natural stupidity?”
—Steve Polyak
47. “Technologists are
quickly taking us into a
future where AI
interactions will be
indistinguishable from
human. When this time
comes it will be the job
of designers to keep us
from going over the
edge.”
Lisa Woodley
VP, Customer Experience
NTT DATA Services
51. “Go within to activate
your neural and genetic
equipment. Become
sensitive to the many
and various levels of
consciousness and the
specific triggers that
engage them…
Turn on
53. Interact harmoniously
with the world around
you – externalize,
materialize, express
your new internal
perspectives.
Tune In
54. An active, selective, graceful
process of detachment from
involuntary or unconscious
commitments. Self-reliance,
a discovery of one's
singularity, a commitment to
mobility, choice, and
change.
Drop Out
55. “The world will be too
dynamic, complex, and
diversified, too cross-
linked by the global
immediacies of modern
(quantum) communication,
for stability of thought or
dependability of behavior
to be successful.”
- Older Timothy Leary
56. ”PC is the LSD
of the 1990s —
‘turn on, boot
up, jack in’”
- Still had a head Timothy Leary
57. “The personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any
extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into
our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.”
62. Source: Letter to Robert Fulford, 1964. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987),
My main theme is the extension of
the nervous system in the electric
age, and thus, the complete break with
five thousand years of mechanical
technology. This I state over and over
again. I do not say whether it is a
good or bad thing. To do so would
be meaningless and arrogant.
71. We have embraced the currency of
attention. Time is THE finite resource.
We increasingly focus on feeding the current
and future ‘experience’ of our digital selves.
How do we, in our business and
professional lives, consider and select to
experience the priceless value of now?
73. Experienced happiness
refers to your feelings, to
how happy you are as you
live your life. In contrast,
the satisfaction of the
remembering self refers
to your feelings when you
think about your life.
74. The Experience or the Memory of the Experience:
(Hint: our digital self has a strong preference)
Which is more important?
78. Technical debt reflects
the implied cost of
additional work caused
by choosing an easy
solution now instead of
using a better approach
that would take longer.
79. Personal Experience
Debt reflects the impact
of design solutions on
the remembering self
caused by sacrificing
temporal experiential
value for distraction,
validation or storage.
Howareyouexperiencing?
Personal Experience Debt
Experiencing
Remembering
82. Business Experience
Debt is the accumulation
of poor experiences, that
results from a focus on
technology, incentives
and/or shareholder value
over the brand
experience of actual
customers. This includes
employees that service
the experience.
Whatisyourbusinessfocus?
Business Experience Debt
Experiences
More with less
mode
83.
84. We are the sum total of
our experiences.
What are you adding to
the sum total?
87. Reshape
“As a direct result of the reshaping of our digital lives at home, we have put into
place a 2-month, 4x4 life plan that touches numerous aspects of our lives and
reshapes the way we behave.”
1. Routine
1. wake up earlier and no snoozing
2. go to bed earlier
3. eat early + go for a walk nightly
4. schedule a family event once per
week
3. Technology
1. Phones on dresser at night
2. Phones in drop zone while at home
3. No phones at the dinner table
4. Purge needless accounts and apps
2. Health
1. eat at home 5 nights per week
2. eat lunch from home 4 days per
week
3. workout 3 times per week
4. follow our healthy eating worksheet
4. Miscellaneous
1. Eliminate debt spending
2. Re-focus on Riley (our dog) including walks,
weekly baths and nightly teeth-brushing
3. Re-focus on Jack (our son) including potty
training and a planned curriculum for home
learning
4. Purge and consolidate things we don’t need
88. Shout out to Clay Botkin!
THIS is the Big Picture.
89. We had a love affair with a
technology that seemed
magical. But like great magic
it worked by commanding
our attention and let letting
us see anything but what the
magician wanted us to see. ”
- Sherry Turkle
Reclaim
95. When we invent a new
technology, we become
cannibals.
We eat ourselves alive
since these technologies
are merely extensions of
ourselves.
To survive one must study
the habits of cannibals
That’s us!
96. It is too late
to leave the
future to the
futurists.
97. People should be
conscious of the large
contribution made by
anything that gets
people together
easily in the reduction
of loneliness and
emotional well-being.
98. Keep your technology away from your bed.
Turn Off: Get a some proper Sleep
Lead and fight in designing for togetherness
Drop In: Pay down your experience debts
In work and life, invest in time well spent
Tune Out: Put a little Communitas in all things
Invest in your Experience Self