how technology and communication are changing societies
by
szymon sikorski
Gottfried Willhelm Leibnitz
last person to have all the knowledge
we live in times of data
> technology influences information
information scaling
The amount of digital information increases tenfold every five years
*1 EB = 1000000000000000000B = 1018 bytes = 1073741824 gigabytes = 1048576 terabytes
information today
http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1009/the-world-of-data/flat.html
information today
http://www.onlineeducation.net/internet
2001 ☎
2011
reading a paper (via a portal)
downloading a paper or reading RSS
calling family [or SMS]
texting family [social networks]
few sources
thousands of sources
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we live in wiki times wikipedia has changed our access to knowledge
wikileaks is changing our attitude to politics
technology influences culture we live in a ”social media” culture we live in a ”crowdsourced” culture we live in a mashup culture
we live in a �social media� culture
we live in a ”crowdsourced” culture
we live in a mashup culture
org. stephen fairey
technology influences education
TRENDS 2012 content curation, serendipity, social hacking,
Content curation „A Content Curator is someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online�
looking for authorities
Serendipity
technology helps us find useful knowledge
Social hacking
hacking for social good
hacktivism
reality hacking
QUESTIONS do we have more time ? are we smarter ? are we more connected ?
CONCLUSION it is not a question of being smarter or having more time we are different and we need to adjust we are changing very fast
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