Lost in the Cloud: Convenience & Control in the

Computer Age

Mathias Klang @klang67

What is cloud computing?Metaphor for the delivery of computing requirements a homogeneous

community of end-recipients...

Focus today: effects on end users

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Too late, we are already in the cloud

7000 years: writing to printing

We hit a slow millennia

Generation zero

hollerith

Generation 3 (1964-72)

Information Wants To Be Free. Information also

wants to be expensive. ...That tension

will not go awaySteward Brand (1985)

World wide web (an open standard)

Hypertext in the wild - Tim Berners-Lee (1990/91)

Mosaic web browser (1993)

Killer apps 1995: Browser wars

Blog

ger 1

999

Goo

gle

1999

End of communications monopoly

But, why are we in the cloud?

Convenience and zero cost

Normalizing the abnormal

if you're not paying for

something, you're not the

customer; you're the

product being sold

Only technology(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Two case studies

Student email

In 2009 we realized we were bad at email!

And that gmail was convenient

Things we did not address

Selling citizens

E-books

2011

2010

2009200720021999

1993 2004

Extroverted reader

Dangerous monopolies?

What do the people who control what we can do, think?

A Squirrel Dying In Your Front Yard May Be More Relevant To

Your Interests Right Now Than People

Dying In AfricaMark Zuckerberg

“My fear is that these technologies are

infantilising the brain into the state of small

children who are attracted by buzzing

noises and bright lights, who have a

small attention span and who live for the

moment.” Prof. Susan Greenfield

Sharing ≠ Caring

Who are we & what is our responsibility?

We the Government

Responsible adults?

The final interface: We have your money – now we want your mind

Cloud is convenient but use with caution

Mathias Klang klang@ituniv.se or @klang67

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