This document discusses the rise of social media and its impact on society and business. It traces the evolution from early technologies like blogs and wikis to today's social networks. Key points made include:
- Social media has democratized information by transforming consumers into publishers.
- Early critics warned it could infantilize the brain and reduce attention spans, while optimists saw its potential to empower users.
- Companies must adapt to a world where consumers engage and share content online in new ways.
- The architecture of technology shapes human behavior more than the content itself.
Ephemeral Knowledge - the Shift to Disposable CultureChris Dancy
In 1870, *Harper's Bazaar* was filled with information from cover to cover, each page overflowing with photos, text, and diagrams.
In the early 1900s, the shift to white space in periodicals radically changed not only the printed page, but also our very culture. Plummeting printing prices had allowed designers to remove content from the pages. The age of white space was upon us. Culturally, white spaces say to the world - we are wealthy, we are abundant in resources, and can literally throw away precious space and information.
The 2000s brought us the constrained knowledge culture. Shorts from blogs, character limited messaging, even videos that only last seven seconds.
Fast forward to the 2010s. Today’s information consumer is presented with something radically different - ephemeral media. It marks a shift in how we create, consume, and respect knowledge.
For 30 years, IT has been struggling with knowledge management. In an information-rich age, this struggle has led us to the age of the disposables. From Snapchat, Workshifting, Car2Go, and even URL's that expire, couch surfing apps to API’s that direct you to Meetup for free meals.
Quantifying Well-Being: Big Mother, Big BrotherChris Dancy
SXSW 2015 session.
Well-being isn’t only about health or even the absence of sickness. Today, it’s about purpose, social support, community, financial security and physical health. But is it possible to quantify your own personal well-being? And if so, what does the data mean and what should you do with it? This session brings one of the world’s most well-known leaders in personal data to explore the convergence of forces that combine high tech personal health tracking devices with fundamental lifestyle changes to empower people to achieve their optimal well-being. Chris Dancy, named the “The Most Connected Man on Earth” by Mashable, Fox News and the BBC. This interactive session will feature a session demonstration of "Smart phone" palmistry" where we will look at how we are embedding our lives into our devices
Ephemeral Knowledge - the Shift to Disposable CultureChris Dancy
In 1870, *Harper's Bazaar* was filled with information from cover to cover, each page overflowing with photos, text, and diagrams.
In the early 1900s, the shift to white space in periodicals radically changed not only the printed page, but also our very culture. Plummeting printing prices had allowed designers to remove content from the pages. The age of white space was upon us. Culturally, white spaces say to the world - we are wealthy, we are abundant in resources, and can literally throw away precious space and information.
The 2000s brought us the constrained knowledge culture. Shorts from blogs, character limited messaging, even videos that only last seven seconds.
Fast forward to the 2010s. Today’s information consumer is presented with something radically different - ephemeral media. It marks a shift in how we create, consume, and respect knowledge.
For 30 years, IT has been struggling with knowledge management. In an information-rich age, this struggle has led us to the age of the disposables. From Snapchat, Workshifting, Car2Go, and even URL's that expire, couch surfing apps to API’s that direct you to Meetup for free meals.
Quantifying Well-Being: Big Mother, Big BrotherChris Dancy
SXSW 2015 session.
Well-being isn’t only about health or even the absence of sickness. Today, it’s about purpose, social support, community, financial security and physical health. But is it possible to quantify your own personal well-being? And if so, what does the data mean and what should you do with it? This session brings one of the world’s most well-known leaders in personal data to explore the convergence of forces that combine high tech personal health tracking devices with fundamental lifestyle changes to empower people to achieve their optimal well-being. Chris Dancy, named the “The Most Connected Man on Earth” by Mashable, Fox News and the BBC. This interactive session will feature a session demonstration of "Smart phone" palmistry" where we will look at how we are embedding our lives into our devices
Help end illiteracy around the world! This slideshow will give a breif introduction on Amplio, a social enterprise dedicated to help educate the illiterate around the world.
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Futuring in the year 2100 by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist.comGlen Hiemstra
Glen Hiemstra, Founder of Futurist.com, presents a program on Futuring in the year 2100. The presentation was a part of a series taking an early look at the 22nd Century, as a feature of the annual meeting of the World Future Society, Chicago, July 2013. As part of the program Glen solicited input from other professional futurists, a sample of which are presented in the slide deck. [note: slide 34 was a video of Elon Musk receiving the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award]
Help end illiteracy around the world! This slideshow will give a breif introduction on Amplio, a social enterprise dedicated to help educate the illiterate around the world.
To create something big, you must attempt something radically different from the status quo, work harder than everyone else, ignore the naysayers, and have lots of patience. It's the only way...
We're an early-stage venture firm that invests in really smart people who are building companies with transformational technologies.
A talk delivered in Barcelona at a conference on the future of the internet, and on innovation and the social web. The talk focuses on African innovation and the lessons we can learn from African innovation for innovation in social media
Futuring in the year 2100 by Glen Hiemstra, Futurist.comGlen Hiemstra
Glen Hiemstra, Founder of Futurist.com, presents a program on Futuring in the year 2100. The presentation was a part of a series taking an early look at the 22nd Century, as a feature of the annual meeting of the World Future Society, Chicago, July 2013. As part of the program Glen solicited input from other professional futurists, a sample of which are presented in the slide deck. [note: slide 34 was a video of Elon Musk receiving the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award]
Like every year, BETC Digital travelled to Austin to bring you fresh inspiration and new ideas from SXSW, the famous digital festival.
Where is digital heading in the following years? We attended conferences by people such as Eric Schmidt, Julian Assange or Edward Snowden to gather their views of the topic.
Is technology making us more introverted and less social? Are selfies making us narcissistic? Or are we entering into a new genre of social behavior, speech and aesthetic.
18. 91 % ACCESS TO THE INTERNET AT HOME
83 % ACCESS TO BROADBAND AT HOME
7% NEVER USED A COMPUTER
SOURCE: SWEDEN STATISTICS 2011 (*INDIVIDUALS AGED 16-74)
19. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
SOCIAL MEDIA
29. Social media…At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in
how people discover, read and share news, information and
content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming
monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is
the democratization of information, transforming people from
content readers into publishers.
(Wikipedia, May 2009)
31. "Out of this anarchy…
what was governing the
infinite monkeys now
inputting away on the
Internet was the law of
digital Darwinism, the
survival of the loudest
and most opinionated.”
ANDREW KEEN: CULT OF THE AMATEUR
(2007)
32. “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
39. Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which
to play… Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good
planking.
That’s Good planking
42. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is
normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the
way the world works. Anything that’s invented between
when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting
and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in
it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against
the natural order of things.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
48. “You have one identity… The days of you having a
different image for your work friends or co-workers
and for the other people you know are probably
coming to an end pretty quickly… Having two identities
for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity”
MARK ZUCKERBERG, 2009
72. "Laws in Japan
are Tatemae -
beautiful things -
that have no real
importance.
Important things
are neither seen
nor written
down.”
Professor Lilian Edwards
73. Control in
digital world
Law
Contextual &
programmed social
rules
Architecture
Control in
analogue world
74. "A UNIT OF CULTURAL INHERITENCE, HYPOTHESIZED
AS ANALOGOUS TO THE PARTICULATE GENE, AND AS
NATURALLY SELECTED BY VIRTUE OF ITS
'PHENOTYPIC' CONSEQUENCIES ON ITS OWN
SURVIVAL AND REPLICATION IN THE CULTURAL
ENVIRONMENT".
Richard Dawkins
(The Selfish Gene 1976)
106. Mathias Klang
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