The document discusses how technology controls and limits freedom through code. It notes that increased digitalization and social media use has led to more ephemeral online activity. While social media supports some freedoms and revolutions, walled gardens and locked clouds restrict access to underlying code and information. The document argues that gaining access to code is important for maintaining freedom and democracy, and that users should understand how technology and gadgets can manipulate lives through their embedded code and information habits. It encourages people to hack for openness, educate others, and read end user license agreements carefully.

1. Expressions in code and freedom
Mathias Klang @klang67

2. TiVo-ization of everyday life

3. Forgotten Revolutions

4. 6000 years ago: someone learned
to read and write

5. Lets eat grandma
Let’s eat, grandma!
Punctuation 200BC

6. Empty spaces between words are
1000 years old

7. Why get excited
about Printing?

8. Digitalization…
now that’s cool!

9. So far,
communications code
mostly compatible

10. Add Internet & stir briskly

11. The open web

12. Social media

13. WWW: ‘
An endangered species?

14. Increased activity – ephemeral
activity

15. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

16. Social media is performance lifestyle

17. My amazing coffee

18. Normalizing the abnormal

19. Walled gardens, information silos &
locked clouds

20. Freedom is useless without access
to underlying code. Without code
we begin to see the "TiVo-ization"
of democracy.

21. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

22. The more technology we embed into our lives the
less freedom we have. This is not Luddism, but
understanding how technology controls us

23. The Con: Social media is supports
freedom & revolution

24. We teach use but not code.
Digital Natives & fear of exclusion

25. What to do?

26. Hack society for openness

27. Be that guy! (this was my biggest fear)

28. Tell people what their information
habits are doing to their lives

29. Gadgets manipulate lives:
but who decides how?

30. Read ALL your EULA

31. What does your code do?

32. THANKS!

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