networked and hyperconnected:the new social (and work) operating system
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Are you checking email or tweeting or texting as you read this session description? Today, many of us are hyper-connected through the web, mobile technologies and social media.TRANSCRIPT
PewInternet.org
Networked and Hyperconnected The New Social (and work) Operating System
National Conference of State Legislators
October 11, 2012
Lee Rainie: Director, Pew Internet Project
Email: [email protected]
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“Tweckle (twek’ul) vt. To
abuse a speaker to Twitter
followers in the audience
while he/she is speaking.”
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we need a tshirt, "I survived the keynote
disaster of 09"
it's awesome in the "I don't want to turn
away from the accident because I might see
a severed head" way
too bad they took my utensils away w/ my
plate. I could have jammed the butter knife
into my temple.
How will hyperconnected Millennials live? http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Hyperconnected-lives.aspx
Vote for …
Millennials’ future
• In 2020 the brains of multitasking teens and young adults are "wired" differently from those over age 35 and overall it yields helpful results. They do not suffer notable cognitive shortcomings as they multitask and cycle quickly through personal- and work-related tasks. Rather, they are learning more and they are more adept at finding answers to deep questions, in part because they can search effectively and access collective intelligence via the Internet. In sum, the changes in learning behavior and cognition among the young generally produce positive outcomes.
… or …
Millennials’ future
• In 2020, the brains of multitasking teens and young adults are "wired" differently from those over age 35 and overall it yields baleful results. They do not retain information; they spend most of their energy sharing short social messages, being entertained, and being distracted away from deep engagement with people and knowledge. They lack deep-thinking capabilities; they lack face-to-face social skills; they depend in unhealthy ways on the Internet and mobile devices to function. In sum, the changes in behavior and cognition among the young are generally negative outcomes.
Millennials’ future
Change for the better
52% Change for the worse
42%
Theme - Supertaskers
Theme – New winners/losers
Theme – Distracted
Theme – New brains
The three revolutions that
got us here
Digital Revolution 1: Broadband Internet (85%) and Broadband at home (66%)
Networked creators and curators among internet users
• 69% are social networking site users
• 59% share photos and videos
• 37% contribute rankings and ratings
• 33% create content tags
• 30% share personal creations
• 26% post comments on sites and blogs
• 15% have personal website
• 15% are content remixers
• 16% use Twitter
• 14% are bloggers
• … of smartphone owners, 18% share their locations; 74% get location info and do location sharing
Revolution 2: Mobile – 89% of adults
331.6
Total U.S.
population:
315.5 million
2011
Apps > 50% of adults
22%
29%
38% 43%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
Sept 2009 May 2010 August 2011 April 2012
% of cell owners who have downloaded apps
9%
49%
67%
76%
86% 87%
92%
7% 8%
25%
48%
61% 68% 73%
6% 4%
11%
25%
47%
49% 57%
1% 7%
13%
26%
29% 38%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
18-29 30-49 50-64 65+
Digital Revolution 3 Social networking – 59% of all adults
% of internet users
Impact on knowledge workers and their constituents
The world is full of networked individuals using (lots of) networked information
Impact on knowledge workers and their constituents
There is an imperative to share and be “on the grid”
Impact on knowledge workers and their constituents
Attention is reallocated
Impact on knowledge workers and their constituents
A “fifth estate” of civic and community actors arises (including citizen “vigilantes”)
Real-time info, just-in-time searches change the process of acquiring and using information … be ready for your closeup
Impact on knowledge workers and their constituents
Impact on knowledge workers and their constituents
Influence is migrating from organizations to networks and new “experts”
Impact on knowledge workers and their constituents
All organizations are under more scrutiny … transparency is a new marker of trust
Closing thoughts from the report on the hyperconnected
• Amber Case, cyberanthropologist, CEO of Geoloqi
“Today and in the future, it will not be as important to internalize information but to elastically be able to take multiple sources of information in, synthesize them, and make rapid decisions. Memories are becoming hyperlinks to information triggered by keywords and URLs. We are becoming ‘persistent paleontologists’ of our own external memories, as our brains are storing the keywords to get back to those memories and not the full memories themselves.”
• Tiffany Shlain, director of the film Connected
“The key will be valuing when to be present and when to unplug. The core of what makes us human is to connect deeply, so this always will be valued. Just as we lost oral tradition with the written word, we will lose something big [in this change], but we will gain a new way of thinking. As Sophocles once said, ‘Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.’”
Closing thoughts from the report on the hyperconnected
Thank you!