The document discusses the history and evolution of augmented humans and cyborgs from ancient prosthetics to modern concerns about the impact of always-online technologies and social media on human thought and behavior. It notes debates around who controls what information people can access and whether systems should support thoughtful reflection or be designed to capture attention. The document calls for developing guidelines and training to ensure responsible use of emerging technologies.

1. Mathias Klang @klang67
Should systems make us
think?

3. How did we
end up here?

4. Cyborgs are so 1980

6. The augmented
human

7. Egyptian wood & leather prosthetic toe (ca
1069 to 664 B.C)

8. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

9. Generation zero

10. hollerith

11. memex
Vannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945

12. Generation 3 (1964-72)

13. Information Wants To Be
Free. Information also
wants to be
expensive. ...That tension
Steward Brand (1985) will not go away

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

15. Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

16. Governments of the Industrial
World, you weary giants of flesh
and steel, I come from Cyberspace,
the new home of Mind. On behalf
of the future, I ask you of the past
to leave us alone. You are not
welcome among us. You have no
sovereignty where we gather.
John Perry Barlow (1996) A Declaration of the
Independence of Cyberspace

17. 91 % Access to the Internet at home
83 % Access to broadband at home
7% Never used a computer
Source: Sweden Statistics 2011 (*Individuals aged 16-74)

18. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

19. We cyborgs

20. “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

21. Normalizing the abnormal

24. Pessimist
talk

29. The
Norwegian
discussion

31. This is not a phone

32. Always online

33. The end of boredom

34. Performance lifestyle

35. My awesome coffee

36. Truman show delusion

37. What does it
all mean?

38. Who is in control?

39. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

41. What will they let us think?

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

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

44. Performance
goes bad…

45. Kanaler

46. Medical news

48. Tough Questions

49. Participation in discussions

50. Medical advice online

51. Dealing with critics

52. Friending patients or families

53. Google docs, gmail, facebook, doodle, slideshare…
Using social media in official
communication

54. Basic stuff

55. RTFM –
read the license.

56. Law (it’s still there).

57. Policies and guidelines

58. Training, seminar, discussion

59. Develop pre-emptive
social media norms

60. Build bad systems?

61. Build systems that support thought.

62. THANKS!

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