This document discusses how social media and technology are changing the nature of work. It notes that technology both liberates us and locks us into habits and convenience. While technology enhances human capabilities, it can also replace human functions and lead to issues like technostress. The document debates whether technology makes us smarter or more infantilized, and whether the online or offline world is better for deep thinking. It concludes by arguing that technology changes both ourselves and how we change technology.

1. Social Media
&
the Changing
Face of Work
Mathias Klang
@klang67

2. What is a hotel room?

4. What humans do?

5. technology doesn’t matter?

6. Determinism: techno or otherwise

7. Sociotechnical change (rip Eugene Polley)

8. Being digital liberates us from one format tyranny. Our habits lock
us in.

9. Controlled by convenience

10. Is technology smart?

11. Man vs Machine

12. The augmented
human

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

14. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

15. Swedish telephone
c:a 1896

16. Writing as external memories

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

18. Threat

19. …you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they
will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will
appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be
tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
Plato –
The Phaedrus (ca 370 bc)

20. Threat perception

21. 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

22. Communication technology

23. Authorship & copyright are inventions of technology

24. Exodus 20:14
THE WICKED BIBLE (1631)

25. ”It was as if a light had
been Nookd in a carved
and painted lantern....”
Tolstoj War & Peace

26. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

27. 2006

28. "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)

29. Normalizing the abnormal

30. Optimism: conversation
& convenience

33. Pessimist talk

38. This is not a phone

39. Always online

40. The end of boredom

41. “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

42. Performance lifestyle

43. Truman show delusion

44. Social networks

45. Dunbar’s 150

46. Stimuli or relations

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

48. Private or Personal

49. What wordfeud did

50. Technostress & Insomnia

51. Who is in control?

52. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

54. What does it
all mean?

55. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

56. Can we quit? If we quit
will we have deep
thoughts?

57. Are those of
us who
remember
the analogue
age fortunate
or
unfortunate?

58. Remember this?

59. Monotask queuing

60. Not knowing

61. Waiting by THE phone

62. Technology changes us
& we change it

63. The advantages are huge

64. 1. Understand how it will help you

65. 2. Understand how it changes your
customers

66. THANKS!

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