Jen Pahlka Technology Anxiety

Slide 1: Technology Anxiety: Then and Next or why “Web 3.0 makes me nervous”

Slide 2: 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

Slide 3: <shudder>

Slide 4: I am not complete without my social context

Slide 6: Rewind: The 40s

Slide 7: The 50s

Slide 8: War Technology

Slide 9: War technology + =

Slide 12: Remix and Mashup

Slide 13: The Ultimate Mashup

Slide 16: Social Media

Slide 17: conclusions

Slide 19: 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