Expressions in Code and Freedom

Expressions in code and freedomMathias Klang @klang67

TiVo-ization of everyday life

Forgotten Revolutions

6000 years ago: someone learned to read and write

Lets eat grandmaLet’s eat, grandma!

Punctuation 200BC

Empty spaces between words are 1000 years old

Why get excited about Printing?

Digitalization… now that’s cool!

So far, communications code mostly compatible

Add Internet & stir briskly

The open web

Social media

WWW: ‘An endangered species?

Increased activity – ephemeral activity

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

Social media is performance lifestyle

My amazing coffee

Normalizing the abnormal

Walled gardens, information silos & locked clouds

Freedom is useless without access to underlying code. Without code we begin to see the "TiVo-ization" of democracy.

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

The more technology we embed into our lives the less freedom we have. This is not Luddism, but understanding how technology controls us

The Con: Social media is supports freedom & revolution

We teach use but not code.

Digital Natives & fear of exclusion

What to do?

Hack society for openness

Be that guy! (this was my biggest fear)

Tell people what their information habits are doing to their lives

Gadgets manipulate lives: but who decides how?

Read ALL your EULA

What does your code do?

THANKS!

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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