1. Being human in
a techno-democracy
Mathias Klang @klang67

2. Social Media is beautiful but today I
shall explore my cynicism

4. We make technology: The artifact.

5. We love technology: Progress.

6. We are technology: Cyborgs.

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

8. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

9. The enlightenment & Theory of
democracy 2.0

10. "Our gadgets have eliminated the need
to remember such things anymore." Foer
Joshua

11. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

12. Technology changes us

16. "If we don't teach our children to be
alone all they will be is lonely"
Sherry Turkle

17. Boredom leads to daydreaming leads to
creativity.

18. Social media is constant access to
impulses.

19. Love is blind: Narratives of arab
spring

20. People, not
technology
make
revolutions

21. Revolutionary technology was not
digital

22. We prefer the narrative

23. Imperialism, paternalism &
technolove: Kony2012 Narrative

24. Stones in glass houses

25. We still don’t
get social media

26. Ppt & ipads ≠ education
Democracy ≠ followers
Friending ≠ marketing

27. Bread & Circuses
Democracy is an activity, social media demos is illusion of motion

28. In closing: more access, less
motion?

29. I suspect grandmother was right…

30. In an age where conversation may be
dying… Don’t slouch, look people in the
eye, shake hands firmly & listen
without tweeting.

31. THANKS!

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