1. Smart Phones, Stupid People:
Will technology make us stupid?
Mathias Klang @klang67

6. Is technology smart?

7. Man vs Machine

8. The augmented human

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

10. Portrait of Hugh de Provence (1352)

11. Swedish telephone
c:a 1896

12. Writing as external memories

13. …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)

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

15. Douglas Adams
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.

16. Blogger 1999
Google 1999
End of communications monopoly

17. Normalizing the abnormal

18. This is not a phone

19. Always online

20. The end of boredom

21. “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

22. Performance lifestyle

23. My awesome coffee

24. Social networks

25. Dunbar’s 150

26. Stimuli or relations

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

28. All the worlds knowledge

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

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

31. Brain candy vs useful information

32. The end of curiosity

33. Information obesity

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

35. Private or Personal

36. What wordfeud did

37. Not addiction but tics

38. Technostress & Insomnia

39. Who is in control?

40. Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

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

42. What does it
all mean?

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

44. Old stupidity or
new intelligence?

45. It is absurd to talk of one animal being
higher than another…we consider those,
where the intellectual faculties most
developed as the highest. – A bee
doubtless would [use] … instincts as a
criteria.
Charles Darwin

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

47. THANKS!

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