The Extroverted Reader

Mathias Klang @klang67The extrovertedreader

Sumerian Logographs(c.a 4000bc)

“fndtlvsnvrydctngvrytmsmbdytrnsnthstgntththrrmndrdbk” Phoenician alphabet only consonants (2000 BC).

“ifindtelevisionveryeducatingeverytimesomebodyturnsonthesetigointotheotherroomandreadabook” Greeks added vowels (1000 BC)

“ifindtelevisionveryeducating.everytimesomebodyturnsontheset,igointotheotherroomandreadabook.”Aristophanes’ plays have punctuation (200 BC)

“Ifindtelevisionveryeducating.Everytimesomebodyturnsontheset,Igointotheotherroomandreadabook.” case appears c:a 700 AD Lower

Spaces between appear about 900 AD“I find television very educating. Every timesomebody turns on the set, I go into theother room and read a book.”

The silent voids

An unchangingmillennium

Screens, battery life, weight,1970s Xerox develops e-paper

1993 2004 2010 1999 2002 2007 2009 2011

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

What do we own?

Pushing connectivity

Social reading

To be social is to share…

Blogger 1999Google 1999 End of communications monopoly

The problem withstimuli

Whattechnology wants

if youre not paying for something,youre not the customer; youre theproduct being sold

What do the people who control whatwe can do, think?

A Squirrel Dying InYour Front Yard MayBe More Relevant To Your Interests Right Now Than People Dying In Africa Mark Zuckerberg

The bling factor

“My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the braininto 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

Changing the marketplace

More information

User generated content

Personal data & walled gardens

Pricing models & purpose ofcopyright

Alternative marketplaces

Endless personal library

The social reader: can the infinite be shared?

Changing the writer

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

The conservative librarian "I have never renounced the old ways.” Lucius Malfoy

Hello toJason Isaacs

There is no book… there are stillreaders

Culture is inevitable,copyright is not

THANKS!

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