The social life of the

Billio

ns

50

40

30

20

10

0 2003 2008 2010 2015 2020

~6 “Things” Per Person

7.8

50

7.3

26

6.7

6.7

• Disconnected intelligence

• Disconnected intelligence • Access to information

• Disconnected intelligence • Access to information

What might that look like?

Children, the only source of truth in a dystopian future

“A truly smart product might do something that we might not

understand or even disagree with”

– Usman Haque (via Rebaudengo)

• Actors • Information • Intelligence • Action • Encoded knowledge

Humans and things

We can tell more about a society or a group of people from the relationships they have, than the attributes of any individual member

Friends, Family, Work, UX Community, Twitterverse, Government?

The social networks that can get things done have higher social capital. This is defined by the “texture” of the network

Hi!

Hi!

BENEFITS & DRAWBACKS

Echo chambers

Individual actors may have access to more or less social capital depending on where they are in the network

Brad Sue

Centrality & Bridges

Chuck

Dynamic relationships Brad ?!

This is important because as humans, our social networks have a massive impact on who we are

Framingham heart study published 2008

Framingham heart study published 2007

200,000 years of social evolution

No Idea !?

1. The weather predictor 2. While you were away 3. The Button 4. Emergent complexity from simple rules 5. Cheating networks 6. The television says NO

The weather predictor

Outsourcing your umbrella reminder

The weather predictor

The weather predictor

The button

Outsourcing your diet

The button

Takeaway night

Re-enactment

The button

1. Trust is key

2. Design for social context

3. Humans like to feel in control

1. Trust is key 2. Design for social context 3. Humans like to feel in control

Do you want to help me make decisions? Do you want to make decisions for me? Which decisions are worth taking away?

50 Billion objects in 4 years time

“… there is a difference between technologies that seek to augment

versus those that seek to replicate or replace human processes”

– Dori Tunstall

They won’t behave how we expect them to.

They will behave how we have

asked them to, with the goals we as UX designers have set for

them.

“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse”

– Sophocles