1. Science,
democracy &
technology: Being
Linnaean in the
digital age
Mathias Klang @klang67

2. "looking like a
tough character
that does not
want or need a
caress"
Peter “Fearless” Forsskål (1732-1763)
Forsskaolea tenacissima

3. Access to “Truth” (knowledge)

4. Thoughts on civil liberty (1759)

5. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to
tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell

6. Truth always wins when it is allowed to
be denied and defended equally (§8)

7. Civil liberty is the
unlimited freedom of
the written word (7§)

8. People oppress each other (5§)

9. Censor
librorum: Niklas
von Oelreich

10. Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture

11. A ridiculously brief history of computing

12. Generation zero

13. hollerith

14. World wide web
(an open standard)
Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)

15. The digital is the original
& everything is copy

16. Interfaces of knowledge

17. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

18. Only 30 kg

19. Limitless
303 grams

21. “all is for the best in the
best of all possible
worlds” Pangloss in Candide (1759)

22. Infrastructures of control

23. To this liberty, the greatest danger is
always posed by those who are the
most powerful in the country by dint
of their positions, estate, or wealth.
Not only can they easily abuse the
power they hold, but also constantly
increase their rights and strength, so
that the other inhabitants must fear
them more and more. (4§)

24. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

25. Formats, (false) metaphors and drm

26. Ephemeral
knowledge

27. Lenses to the world

28. Surveillance as hidden cost

29. To ensure digital civil
liberty politicians
must be fearless,
weigh people above
commerce & speech
above infrastructure

30. THANKS!

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