The document discusses the impact of technology on universities. It notes that while universities have existed for over a millennium, technological changes are driving changes today. It explores how the organization of knowledge has evolved from encyclopedias to memes to today's online environment where everything is "miscellaneous." While technology enables access to information and freedom of expression, it can also isolate users in "filter bubbles" and cause "information obesity." The document questions whether technology enhances or hinders curiosity, and whether those who remember pre-Internet times are fortunate or unfortunate. It concludes by considering the potential roles of social media in academia, such as facilitating collaboration and monitoring research.

1. University in the age of smartphone
Mathias Klang… @klang67

2. University: Still going strong after a
millennium If it ain’t broke then don’t fix it.

3. Information is scarce
Information is power
Organization is key
Metaphor: Encyclopedia

4. Technological change drives change

5. Hello to
Jason Isaacs
"I have never renounced the old ways.” Lucius Malfoy
Maintaining core principles

6. hollerith

8. 1993 2004 2010
1999 2002 2007 2009 2011

9. The organization of knowledge

10. memex
Vannevar Bush; As We May Think; Atlantic Monthly; July 1945

12. Everything is miscellaneous

13. What do we do with our technology?

14. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

15. Blogger 1999
OUR STUDENTS WERE
10 YEARS OLD HERE
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

16. The theoretically possible becomes
inevitable

17. I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll
defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire
Freedom of expression
Access to knowledge
Freedom of information

18. 2006

19. "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)

20. Normalizing the abnormal

21. Optimism: conversation
& convenience

24. Pessimist talk

28. And the skeptical

29. This is not a phone

30. Always online

31. The end of boredom

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

33. Performance lifestyle

34. Truman show delusion

35. My awesome coffee

36. Social networks

37. Dunbar’s 150

38. Stimuli or relations

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

40. All the world’s knowledge

41. Imagine a world in which every single
person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human
knowledge.
Jimmy Wales

42. Surplus is harder to deal with scarcity...

43. Brain candy vs useful information

44. The end of curiosity

45. Altered
patterns of
work, play,
learning,
sleep...

46. Private or Personal

47. What wordfeud did

48. Not addiction but tics

49. Technostress & Insomnia

50. Who is in control?

51. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

53. The university mail
problem… besides overload

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

55. Cass Sunstein Republic.com (2002)
& the daily me

56. Bubbles
The Filter Bubble (Eli Pariser 2011)

57. Choice kills? The Net Delusion
(Evgeny Morosov 2011)

58. Information obesity

59. Why the KGB wants you to join
facebook

60. What does it
all mean?

61. Does quitting the Internet mean that we will
have big, deep thoughts? Did everyone in
pre Internet days have BDT?

62. Can we stand
outside progress?
Outside the
network?

63. Are we
relevant if
we are
standing
outside?

64. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

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

66. "Scientists are people of very
dissimilar temperaments
doing different things in very
different ways. Among
scientists are collectors,
classifiers and compulsive
tidiers-up; many are
detectives by temperament
and many are explorers; some
are artists and others artisans.
There are poet-scientists and
philosopher-scientists and
even a few mystics.”
Peter Medawar

67. Wikipedia still a threat

68. Twitter a joke

69. Facebook?

70. The unrewarded
academic blogger

71. What can social media do (for
academia)?

72. Finding & supporting collaboration

73. Monitoring.
Research, research
interpretation &
conferences.

74. Brainstorming. Short term collaboration?

75. THANKS!

76. Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
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