High Tech Colonialism in the 21st Century Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZayhARoqA&\ Part of Paul Woodley’s Meetup Series - "UX isn't Just Design it’s…" https://www.meetup.com/UX-isnt-just-design/ A way out of a BLACK HOLE? Thanks to Paul for inviting me and Ustwo for hosting!

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Bill Tribble - Digital Product Designer
@bill_tribble
High Tech Colonialism

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Part of Paul Woodley’s Meetup Series
A way out of a BLACK HOLE?

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I’ve worked for

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• Tech Optimism
• The Myth of Progress
• Colonialism & Climate Change
• Colonising Human Attention
• Where Do We Go From Here?
AGENDA

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A
BICYCLE
FOR
THE MIND

16. Jaron Lanier
Computer Scientist, ‘Father of VR’
“We didn’t anticipate how power would
concentrate in those data centers”

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FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM
YOUTUBE GOOGLE

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THE MYTH
OF
PROGRESS

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DEVELOPED NATIONS
😄
UNDEVELOPED NATIONS
😢 Aid

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FOLLOW THE MONEY
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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2012 - GLOBAL MONEY FLOWS
$2tn
$1.3tn
$3.3tn

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MODERN DAY COLONIALISM
$2tn
Interest payments
Repatriation of profits
Illicit capital flight
False invoicing (legal thanks to WTO!)

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1492 - 2020+

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COLONIALISM
&
CLIMATE CHANGE

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CUMULATIVE CO2 EMISSIONS, 2017 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CLIMATE VULNERABILITY

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2020 - COLONISATION EVERYWHERE

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2020 - COLONISATION EVERYWHERE

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TECH
IN
2020

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COLONISING
HUMAN
ATTENTION

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FACEBOOK TWITTERINSTAGRAM
YOUTUBE GOOGLE

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ex-Youtube engineer
YOUTUBE
Guillaume Chaslot

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1 BILLION HOURS
WATCHED DAILY
70% VIA ALGORITHMIC
RECOMMENDATION

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700,000,000 HOURS PER DAY

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ALEX JONES VIDEOS
RECOMMENDED
15 BILLION TIMES

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ALEX JONES VIDEOS
RECOMMENDED
15 BILLION TIMES
IF 1 IN 1,000
SUBSCRIBE TO INFOWARS, THAT’S
15,000,000
NEW CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

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EXTREMISM, ANGER, OUTRAGE NUANCE, BALANCED VIEWS

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FACEBOOK TWITTERINSTAGRAM

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Renée DiResta
Mozilla Fellow in
Media, Misinformation, and Trust.

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USA 2016 ELECTION
2017 CONGRESS
INVESTIGATION
Russian
“Internet Research Agency”

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GET READY TO RIOT
IF SHE WINS

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CAMBRIDGE
ANALYTICA

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320,000 ‘seed voters’
paid to take personality /
political test
1.
App harvests
FB ‘likes’ and
other data
2.
Quiz results &
‘likes' data mined
for psych patterns
3.
Granular targeted
ads to influence
election
4.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/24/aggregateiq-data-firm-link-raises-leave-group-questions

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FREEDOM
OF
SPEECH?

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FREEDOM OF REACH
NOT
FREEDOM OF SPEECH

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IN
SUMMARY

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SO WHERE
DO WE GO
FROM HERE?

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Decolonise
Your Mind

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AWARENESS
CONVERSATION
DESIGN BETTER ALTERNATIVES
LEGISLATE AGAINST ABUSE

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Recommended Web Apps
Demetricator Extensions
For Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
DuckDuckGo
Web Search
Firefox
& Facebook Container

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Recommended Listening
Your Undivided Attention - Podcast
Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin
Yuval Noah Harari and Tristan Harris Interview
(Youtube next to Infowars vid)
👉

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Recommended Reading
Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla) / Guardian
The Divide
Jason Hickel
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari

63. THANKS
FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
ASK ME ANYTHING
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