9. Information overload: General life Turn off the TV and read a book! Turn off your cell phone when driving. Studies say you are 5 to 12 times more likely to have an accident while talking on the phone (even if you have a hands-free headset)! And, you are 23 times more likely to have an accident texting while driving! Turn off your cell phone at movies, theatre, dinner, etc. Most importantly, prioritize.Your time and attention are your most precious “commodities”.
10. Information overload: Multi-tasking Living Faster: Split-focusPBS Frontline’s Digital nation (2/2010) Stanford Study of Multi-TaskingDigital Nation (2/2010)
11. Information overload: “Going viral” When links to online videosare e-mailed and forwarded, they are said to have “gone viral” Often numbers of views outnumber views of traditional media, such as network news
15. Assistive Technology Technology that’s used to helpsomeone overcome adisability Alliance for Technology Access Assistive Technology: Opening Doors to Independence video
18. Robotics Japanese robot with very realistic facial expressions http://www.physorg.com/news189528493.html http://www.geekosystem.com/japanese-robot-with-incredibly-realistic-facial-expressions/
23. Break What are your thoughts about virtual reality? What do you think about robots? Would you be comfortable having a robotic nurse tending to you in a hospital? Would you be comfortable riding in a remote-control vehicle? How do you feel about remote-control war? Does it change how inclined a country might be to enter a war if their soldiers aren’t at any physical risk?
25. Digital divide OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments
26. Technology’s impact on society… “ I doubt that the 21st century will pose problems for us that are more stunning, disorienting, or complex than those we faced in [the 20th] century or the 19th, 18th, 17th, or for that matter, any of the centuries before that.” “The human dilemma is as it has always been, and it is a delusion to believe that the technological changes of our era have rendered irrelevant the wisdom of the ages and the sages.” NeilPostman
27. Technology’s impact on society… “ In the next millennium we will find we are talking as much or more with machines than we are with humans. What seems to trouble people most is their self-consciousness about talking to inanimate objects.” Nicholas Negroponte in Being Digital “I have no doubt we can adapt ourselves to talking much more to machines than to people. We may even come to prefer it. But adaptation ought not to be equated with sanity.” Neil Postman in Six Questions
28. Technology’s impact on society… According to Neil Postman there are six important questions we need to keep in mind as society develops technology: What is the problem? Whose problem is it? What new problems will be created by solving an old one? What people and institutions will be most seriously harmed? What changes in language are occurring? What new sources of economic and political power will emerge? “Its doubtful that you could think of any single technology that did not generate new problems as a result of its having solved an old problem. Of course, it’s sometimes very difficult to know what new problems will arise as a result of the technological solution.” Neil Postman
29. Conclusion Please e-mail me your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns. I look forward to corresponding with you! Sharon Gray gray@augie.edu
30. Sources Staying Sane in a Technological Society: Six questions in search of an answer by Neil Postman Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation (2/2010) Living Faster: Split-focus Stanford Study of Multi-Tasking The avatar effect Taking out the taliban – home for dinner Susan Boyle on YouTube Alliance for Technology Access Assistive Technology: Opening Doors to Independence video Robots Living with (Robots (Honda) http://www.physorg.com/news189528493.html http://www.geekosystem.com/japanese-robot-with-incredibly-realistic-facial-expressions/ Digital Divide Bridge the Digital Divide http://www.bridgethedigitaldivide.com/ Internet World Stats http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide
