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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 [email protected] or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net
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