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Roy Christopher: Disconnecting the Dots
1. Disconnecting the Dots:
How Our Devices
are Divisive
Roy Christopher
#divisivedevices
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2. “A Beginning is a Very Delicate Time.”
- Dune
“How, from a fire that never sinks or sets,
would you escape?”
- Heraclitus, Fragment 27
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3. “We’ll All Be Happy Then,” 1911
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4. “We’ll All Be Happy Then,” 1911
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5. “We’ll All Be Happy Then,” 1911 All-at-Once Weekend
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6. “The New does not emerge;
it erupts, then fades away.”
– Geert Lovink
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7. “The New does not emerge;
it erupts, then fades away.”
– Geert Lovink
A beginning is a bifurcation.
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10. DISCONNECTION
• Between each other
• Between ourselves and our work
• Between ourselves and our world
• Between ourselves and our selves
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11. DISCONNECTION
Augmentation Technological
Mediation
Obstruction
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12. DISCONNECTION
Target
Metaphor
Source
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13. DISCONNECTION
Physical System
Gulf of Execution
Gulf of Evaluation
Goals
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15. THRESHOLD
We gather together around one kind of screen,
and use other screens alone to connect with each other.
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16. THRESHOLD
We gather together around one kind of screen,
and use other screens alone to connect with each other.
We’ve gone from wearing goggles and gloves
in order to enter the machine,
to using our bodies as input devices
bringing the machine into the room.
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17. THRESHOLD
We gather together around one kind of screen,
and use other screens alone to connect with each other.
We’ve gone from wearing goggles and gloves
in order to enter the machine,
to using our bodies as input devices
bringing the machine into the room.
The size of our devices are now decided
by the size of our appendages.
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19. THRESHOLD
Advent Horizon: The line we draw at the edge
of our level of comfort with technology.
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20. THRESHOLD
Advent Horizon: The line we draw at the edge
of our level of comfort with technology.
We feel a sense of loss when we cross it.
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21. THRESHOLD
Advent Horizon: The line we draw at the edge
of our level of comfort with technology.
We feel a sense of loss when we cross it.
We rely on analog scaffolding and analog totems.
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22. THRESHOLD
Advent Horizons
Word processing
Typing
Writing
Speaking
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25. BRIDGE
Technology curates culture.
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26. BRIDGE
Technology curates culture.
Technology makes decisions for us.
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27. BRIDGE
Technology curates culture.
Technology makes decisions for us.
The tyranny of adoption:
A new technology is worthless if no one uses it.
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28. BRIDGE
“The Machine is not the environment for the person; the
person is the environment for the machine.”
- Aviv Bergman
“The long-range question is not so much what sort of
environment we want, but what sort of people we want.”
- Robert Sommer
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29. PEACE
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