Tap to Write History by Aitor García Rey

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Transcript

1. Tap to Write History: Our Digital Legacy
2. Mobile Devices
3. The Great Migration
4. We've been cyborgs for 2 million years.
5. We've been cyborgs for 2 million years.
11. Ishango Bone
12. Ishango Bone
13. Storage Computation Self tracking 20.000 BC
14. Khipus & Spreadsheets
15. Primary cord Pendant cords Knots
17. 3 0 0 0 8 2 1 0
18. Puruchuco
19. 3.000 8.210 8.131 + 2.010 8.110 8.131 + 1.000 3.110 6.130 = 6.010 19.430 22.392
20. 3 Double knots == “Puruchuco”
21. Geolocation Tree diagrams Base-10 Spreadsheets Book-keeping 1400 AD
22. Historical need to transfer information and stories
32. Your quantified digital self makes you unique.
33. Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility
34. Antenna ID Time AB234 8:32am AB235 9:15am AB236 12:05am AB237 6:45pm ... ... ... ... ... ... 15 months 1.5M users anonymized 2.5B interac.
35. Data points needed to characterize a user?
36. Data points needed to characterize a user? 4 (95% accuracy)
37. The new sacrifice
38. The Cloud is pouring data over humans
39. Unique & Equal
40. Couch Cachet.com
43. You are your digital self.
44. What is real?
48. Who is the data holder?
51. "There's a new phenomena that I like to call the Stacks. And we've got five of them: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. The future of the stacks is basically to take over the internet and render it irrelevant [...] None of them offer any prosperity or security to their human participants, except for their shareholders. The internet has users. Stack people are livestock ignorant of what's going on, and moving from on stack to another.” Bruce Sterling
53. Geocities
54. VOID
57. Dutch East India Company
59. Facebook 2012 AD Roman Empire 150 AD Users 1B monthly active users 65M Imperial subjects World pop. 6.973M 250M % World pop. ~14.49% ~26%
60. Thanks.