A keynote speech from Alex Krotoski at Creative Skillset's TransFUSION conference, December 2013. What are the positive and negative influences of technology on our lives and our psychology?

1. Taking on
Technofundamentalism
Aleks Krotoski
Creative Skillset, 5 December 2013

2. Question your sources

3. Technology
is neither good nor bad.
Nor is it neutral.

4. What’s outside the
frame?

5. Context

6. Design agendas

7. Digital identity
Online identity

8. namespace collision

9. Are we sure X is Y?

10. I, Y, consist of
A, B and C.

11. Google

12. Usefulness can be
predicted

13. Just enough to be
magical

14. All sources are
created equal

15. Quantitative judgements
are superior

16. Facebook

17. Be your tools

18. Be your categories

19. Be your wallet

20. Life Beats

21. The web never forgets

22. It cannot make that
judgement

23. we are the problem

24. don’t assume learners
have special knowledge

25. just because she
jumped off a cliff..

26. online and digital
identities are different

27. digital literacy is more
than learning to use a
keyboard and mouse

28. developers don’t have
your well-being as a
priority

29. expect it adapt to you

30. consider flexibility

31. remember the biases

32. we understand how power
works offline, but we don’t
understand how it works online

33. they invent new products,
processes, systems and devices
that produce profound sociocultural transformations

34. alekskrotoski.com
With thanks to the Nominet Trust for their support