1. Information production has evolved from speech to writing to printing to telegraph and more, with storage costs decreasing due to Moore's law. 2. Technology both drives and is driven by social change, as seen by the rise of social media platforms and apps from the 1990s to 2010s. 3. As theoretical rights to information become practice, there is a need to address issues like "information obesity" and developing an understanding of information, source criticism, and coping with excess information.

2. Information is all around us

3. Most of history was speechless & the history of writing is a joke

4. We are formed by evolution to hunt energy rich food & information

5. Information production costs: speech  writing  printing  telegraph 

6. Storage costs: moores law

7. Technology is agent and effect of change

8. Was the last decade social?

9. Flickr 2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2004 2006 Wikipedia Linkedin Blogger 1999 Second Life My Space Skype Digg Facebook Ning YouTube Twitter Spotify Google c:a 1998 2008 2007 2009 Farmville iphone Wikileaks Angry Birds

10. Theoretical rights become inevitable practice

11. Focus on the trivial, …its evolution baby!

12. What to do about information obesity

13. A fetish for Change

14. BURKINA FASO

15. Republic of Upper Volta

16. OUAGADOUGOU [citation needed]

18. School as factory never worked?

19. Online all the time

22. Information disdain. Are libraries quaint, outdated & nostalgic?

23. Teaching an understanding of information. Coping with information obesity. Source criticism.

24. We do not know the future – we should generalize not specialize

25. Long live the humanities!!

26. Problem 1: We are stupid?

27. Problem 2: We don’ t know what we don ’ t know

28. Problem 3: difference between who I want to be & who I am…

29. Problem 4: The keepers of algorithms know this

30. There have always been gatekeepers.

31. We need to understand the gatekeepers desire for information

32. You don’ t have to be unconscious to be without consciousness

33. Thank you.