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

2. Social media

3. 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.
Douglas Adams

4. the ability of
agents to make
choices free from
constraints

5. Constraints of time & geography

6. Imagine a world in which every single
person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human
knowledge. Jimmy Wales

7. Organizing the world’s information, and
making it universally accessible.

8. Facebook gives people the power to share
and make the world more open and
connected.

9. …And they all
lived happily
ever after. The
end.

13. Performance lifestyle

14. My amazing coffee

15. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

16. Control in
digital world
Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world

17. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

18. Normalizing the abnormal

19. What social
media wants

20. What do the people who control what
we can do, think?

21. A Squirrel Dying In
Your Front Yard May
Be More Relevant To
Your Interests Right
Now Than People
Dying In Africa
Mark Zuckerberg

22. The final interface: We have your money –
now we want your mind

23. What
social
media
provides

24. The end of ignorance, curiosity boredom

25. “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

26. What the future holds?

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

28. Digital sharecroppers

29. Interdependencies: it’s a question of balance

30. Convenience ≠ Free Will - but is it
happiness?

31. Ignorance is strength

32. THANKS!

33. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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