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- 1. Is Twitter Eroding our Humanity? Information Overload in the 21st Century Kaisa Schreck, Editor, International Relations and Security Network (ISN), ETH Zurich
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- Comfortable with the speed of my English or the words I use- if not, raise your hand and don’t hesitate to ask. Start by explaining title- decode words/concepts- internet, information overload, twitter- and the big question- what it means to be human. Won’t try to answer these conclusively; I am not a psychologist, technician or philosopher but I work in an area, information management, where questions surrounding these concepts are important. It’s also a personal journey into a world of information and knowledge that seems more and more confusing and exhausting by the day. Quest became much more philosophical than I thought it would. But it also has real practical depth because its something that most of us struggle with on a daily basis.
- WWW: to host and connect individual web pages. Free and open medium. Usage doubling every year--- or even more- some areas grow even faster than others 12 hours a week of net, but has not replaced TV- so we’re spending more and more time in front of screens. Teens more than 32 hours a week in 2009! Exabyte is 2 to the power of 60 (1000 petabytes, 1000 x 1000 terabytes) , typed text about 2 Kilobytes Equivalent of trillions of magazines flowing through Net. 57 percent of Internet users in developing countries, growth fastest there as well, nearly 860 million in Asia-Pacific
- Google makes more money the more we click. Google Book Search- digitizing all books (copyright issue here a whole different story), Google Art project (latest), Google Earth Find relevance and connections- this is what the ISN does in IR field.
- The democratization of information- from books to a global database of human knowledge. Google Project- organizing all human knowledge online.
- Facebook- started as a connector for college students- meeting new people made easier. I joined when a few members in 2005. Wrote about it 1 year ago- then 200 million members. Added 150 million members since January. OBSESSIVE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS- before you go to bed, as soon as you wake. Social media VERY YOUNG- all these success stories are less than 6 years old, some just a year old. Rate of growth in this market is incredibly fast once an idea is considered good by masses. Wikipedia- more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica.
- You can follow Obama, Medvedev, Britney Spears, the Vatican, Coca Cola, you name it. Analysis of trends; important topics being discussed. But still not enough to find the relevant stuff; the information that really matters? CAN BE USEFUL AS WELL THOUGH- we use Twitter at work to share interesting articles, stories- keep each other up to date. Record: 6,000 tweets per second over New Years in Japan= 518 million tweets within 24 hours
- IN THIS WORLD... EVERYBODY IS A CREATOR. Everybody can make and upload a Youtube video of their friend‘s cat. Or themselves singing. EVERYBODY IS AN EXPERT- comment anonymously, fake expertise. Can easily make outlandish statements, no accountability in anonymous world. Virals- example of Antoine Dodson- literally celebrity overnight; now millions of views on Youtube, from poor projects in Alabama, interviewed on TV because of an attack on his sister. He became an overnight sensation- iTunes, wikipedia article, Youtube etc… BUT THE NONSENSE IS ENTERTAINING!
- Anxious- getting medial ‚second opinions‘ online, for example.
- How much money does multitasking cost us? Memory as an intricate part of our brain’s functioning and our intelligence. Memory is organic, nuanced, complex. Not 1-1 with computer memory. “ Our brains become adept at forgetting, inept at remembering.” Shallow minds?
- Turns out, I am a TERRIBLE multitasker--- much slower in reactions, did NYT test. Multitasking- lost time estimated to cost US economy more than 600 billion dollars a year.
- Addiction- neurological addiction because stimulation provokes excitement- a dopamine squirt– ADDICTIVE and if we don‘t get it, we get bored (NYT). We become overwhelmed! Big part of lives online--- ‚online lives‘
- Information Overload, Information Anxiety, Information Fatigue- whatever you want to call it.
- Focus on information, but should we be paying attention to the technology itself? Nora Volkow: a leading brain scientist, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the message, 1964 IS THE NET BECOMING OUR MASTER?
- How difficult is it to get our brains to really go offline when neural circuits have been rewired to seek out instant gratification and stimulaiton.
- End of deep reading- studies continue to show that reading linear text (without links) allows you to remember more. Seneca- Roman Philosopher NUMB: We just dismiss important information- we simply cannot process it- ignore issues/situations that might elicit a much more empathetic response under less stressful circumstances. Info has no time to sink in, never reaches part of our brains that process painful, uncomfortable information and makes us react emotionally.
- Richard Foreman- playwright, experiment of living without Net for 4 months? Dreyfus: The Net is not neutral, it diminishes our involvement in the physical and social world.
- Plato- pure minds- highest duty to cultivate this. Nietzsche- embrace our emotional, vulnerable bodies, master it by accepting it!
- ENGAGED WITH OURSELVES; PEOPLE AROUND US; ALSO IN PHYSICAL SENSE Hubert Dreyfus
- Cheap supercomputers are on the way- by mid-21st Century computers that will cost a thousand dollars but will have the processing capacity of all our human brains combined.
- Openness and neutrality- the Net is open to all, no one owns it. Applications for iPhones are controlled and paid for. But, by 2020 most will access the Net over phone. Back to nature- proven to improve cognitive abilities- we’re calmer and sharper even after a short stroll in the forest. Neuroscientists and psychologists becoming more interested in the balancing act between the stressful online world and the calm that nature gives us. To a degree these developments are out of our hands. But we can REASSERT CONTROL. Be more aware, more disciplined; take what we can out of these technologies, but don’t let it control us.