To Mock a Mockingbird

Suppose someone gives you pen and paper and teaches you how to write: would you be trapped between these four corners, or would you break free and make a paper airplane out of it?

Suppose someone hands you a guitar and teaches you how to play: would you be tangled in its strings, or would you break free and use the body of the guitar to make drum sounds?

Now suppose someone gives computers to children and teach them to code: would they see them as tech, or would they break free and use them as tools for amplifying their thoughts?

Would they understand it as a new medium -one that allows representing thoughts unthinkable until now- or would they perceive it as the latest version of paper?

In this talk I'll cover what would mean to live the Computer Revolution (as Alan Kay says), reflecting on the point of view we have about technology and the way we use it.

Transcript

1. @NicolasPapagna nicolas.papagna@10pines.com Work @ TA @ Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA)
2. Special Thanks
4. auditory
5. John gomm • passionflower auditory
6. John gomm • passionflower auditory
7. Breaking free: Tool or media? auditory
8. Visual
9. carpet, paper, bottle, bed, fish, chair, window, telephone, cigarette, nail, typewriter, shoe, microphone, pen, television set, plate, donut, car, coffee pot, and brick Visual Try to remember
10. Visual Breaking free: harry lorayne
11. Kinesthetic
12. Kinesthetic Bird flight modelling
13. Breaking free: paper aircraft Kinesthetic
14. What just happened?
15. What just happened? We are easily fooled
16. What just happened? The way we see things shape the way we use them to think
17. What just happened? To break free we have to use media like no one ever did before
18. Making thoughts visible
19. The printing press & The Revolution
20. The medium is the MASSAGE
21. How does this relate to our field?
22. Good news is that you already have a “printing press” IN YOUR POCKET.
23. BAD NEWS is that you already have a “printing press” in your pocket.
24. The new printing press
25. Every time you use technology Ask yourself: which hat am I wearing?
26. So, what does it means ... ... To mock a mockingbird?
27. Suppose someone hand you a computer and tech you to “code”. Ask yourself:
28. Am I using it as a tool?
29. Or am I using this new media Like no one ever did before?
30. Thank You @10pines @NicolasPapagna nicolas.papagna@10pines.com dev.10pines.com
31. Questions?
32. Personal experience