Jen Pahlka Technology Anxiety

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I’m Jennifer Pahlka, the co-chair of the Web 2.0 Expo this week, working along with Brady My talk tonight was inspired by the first mention I read in the mainstream press of Web 3.0, which of course caught my attention since presumably it puts me out of a job.

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Jen Pahlka Technology Anxiety - Presentation Transcript

Technology Anxiety: Then and Next or why “Web 3.0 makes me nervous”
Web 3.0: The Holy Grail?
- A system that can give a reasonable and complete response to a simple question like:
- “ I’m looking for a warm place to vacation and I have a budget of $3,000. Oh, and I have an 11-year-old child.”
- - John Markoff, New York Times, Nov 12, 2006
- <shudder>
I am not complete without my social context
Rewind: The 40s
The 50s
War Technology
War technology + =
Remix and Mashup
The Ultimate Mashup
Social Media
conclusions
Technology wants to take care of you. It wants to buckle you up. To give you an airbag so you don’t have to do the minimal task fastening your seatbelt. It wants to take care of you so you have nothing left to do for yourself. That I think is a great danger to freedom. -Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University