1. Will technology
make us stupid?
Mathias Klang @klang67

4. OMG
wtf???

6. unpack

7. technology we use to organize our lives controls us

9. In America I had arranged with a gramophone
firm to make some of my music. This
suggested the idea that I should compose
something whose length should be
determined by the capacity of the record.
Igor Stravinsky (1925)

11. Douglas Adams
Anything 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.

12. …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.
Plato –
The Phaedrus (ca 370 bc)

14. How did we
end up here?

15. Living the
cyborg dream

16. Man & Machine

17. The augmented
human

18. Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca
1069 to 664 B.C)

19. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

20. Swedish telephone
c:a 1896

21. Writing as external memories

22. "Our gadgets have eliminated the need
to remember such things anymore." Foer
Joshua

23. Ludicrously brief history of
computers

24. hollerith

25. Generation 3 (1964-72)

27. The digital is the original
& everything is copy

28. Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

29. Everything is miscellaneous

30. 91 % Access to the Internet at home
83 % Access to broadband at home
7% Never used a computer
Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

31. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

32. Normalizing the abnormal

34. This is not a phone

35. Always online

36. “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

37. Performance lifestyle

38. My awesome coffee

39. Social Networks & Dunbar’s 150

40. Stimuli or relations

41. Mourning online: or what’s so great
about meeting people?

42. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

43. 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

44. Change!

46. Monotask queuing

47. Not knowing

48. Waiting by THE phone

49. Only 30 kg

50. Limitless
303 grams

51. The end of boredom

52. Social responsibility

53. digital liberates us, habits lock us in.

54. The state

55. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

56. The corporation

57. if you're not
paying for
something,
you're not the
customer;
you're the
product being
sold

58. The individual

59. Controlled by convenience

60. Are those of
us who
remember
the analogue
age fortunate
or
unfortunate?

61. THANKS!

62. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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