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Lift Opening Session: Technology vs. people
Lift12 Session
February 22, 2012 - 14:00This session will ask a simple question: has technology made our lives easier, or do we now have to deal with an overwhelming flow of interruptions hampering our productivity? We will discuss overload, screens invading our homes, and try to find the solution to a growing problem: technology fatigue.
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Technologies vs people
JP Rangaswami (Salesforce.com, UK)Did technology make our lives easier or worse? What are the things that got better, beyond the obvious and utopian views? Did technologies make our jobs easier or worse? Are we collaborating better?
Perspective on information overload
Anaïs Saint-Jude (Stanford University, USA)Is information overload really new? Anais Saint Jude will provide a bit of perspective by looking at another great period of innovation: the 17th century.
Killing your digital identity
Gordan Savičić (weise7, Switzerland)One of the co-inventors of the web 2.0 suicide machine, Gordan Savicic will tell us the story of his invention, and why he is on a mission to help users be smarter about their digital identities.
Powerpoint vs people
Pierre Croce (Dailymotion, France)Pierre Croce, a worldwide authority on creating winning Powerpoint™ presentations to empower the audience into making the best decisions of their smart lives™.
Destroying the bourgeois home: are digital devices challenging our victorian myths of domesticity?
Stefana Broadbent (UCL, UK)In the last 150 years, in the name of domestcity and familism, more and more activities have been moved out of European homes: production, payed labour, storage, food processing, ...
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