Mathias Klang @klang67
The extroverted
reader

Sumerian Logographs
(c.a 4000bc)

“fndtlvsnvrydctngvrytmsmbdytrnsn
thstgntththrrmndrdbk”
Phoenician alphabet only consonants (2000 BC).

“ifindtelevisionveryeducatingeverytime
somebodyturnsonthesetigointotheothe
rroomandreadabook” Greeks added vowels (1000 BC)

“ifindtelevisionveryeducating.everytim
esomebodyturnsontheset,igointotheot
herroomandreadabook.”
Aristophanes’ plays have punctuation (200 BC)

“Ifindtelevisionveryeducating.Everytim
esomebodyturnsontheset,Igointotheot
herroomandreadabook.” case appears c:a 700 AD
Lower

Spaces between
appear about 900 AD
“I find television very educating. Every time
somebody turns on the set, I go into the
other room and read a book.”

The silent voids

An unchanging
millennium

Screens, battery life, weight,
1970s Xerox develops e-paper

1993 2004 2010
1999 2002 2007 2009 2011

Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Control in
digital world
Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world

What do we own?

Pushing connectivity

Social reading

To be social is to share…

Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

The problem with
stimuli

What
technology
wants

if you're not
paying for
something,
you're not the
customer;
you're the
product being
sold

What do the people who control what
we can do, think?

A Squirrel Dying In
Your Front Yard May
Be More Relevant To
Your Interests Right
Now Than People
Dying In Africa
Mark Zuckerberg

The bling factor

“My fear is that these
technologies are
infantilising the brain
into the state of small
children who are
attracted by buzzing
noises and bright
lights, who have a
small attention span
and who live for the
moment.”
Prof. Susan Greenfield

Changing the marketplace

More information

User generated content

Personal data & walled gardens

Pricing models & purpose of
copyright

Alternative marketplaces

Endless personal library

The social reader: can the infinite be shared?

Changing the writer

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

The conservative librarian
"I have never renounced the old ways.” Lucius Malfoy

Hello to
Jason Isaacs

There is no book… there are still
readers

Culture is inevitable,
copyright is not

THANKS!

Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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