Renny Gleeson: Busted! The sneaky moves of antisocial smartphone users

Translator: Stephan Sabinsky Reviewer: Anders Finn Jørgensen

What I wanted to talk to you about today is two things:

I dag vil jeg gerne tale om to ting:

one, the rise of a culture of availability;

For det første: Om fremkomsten af af en tilgængelighedskultur

and two, a request.

For det andet: En anmodning.

So we're seeing a rise of this availability

Vi bruger mere og mere tid online

being driven by mobile device proliferation,

pga. væksten af mobile enheder

globally, across all social strata.

på verdensplan, på tværs af alle sociale lag.

We're seeing, along with that proliferation of mobile devices,

I takt med det øgede antal mobile enheder

an expectation of availability.

er der en forventning til, at vi er online

And, with that, comes the third point,

Det fører til en tredje pointe: Vi er forpligtede til,

which is obligation -- and an obligation to that availability.

at være tilgængelige online.

And the problem is, we're still working through,

Problemet er, at vi stadig arbejder på

from a societal standpoint,

- ud fra et samfundsmæssigt synspunkt -

how we allow people to be available.

hvordan vi tillader folk at være online.

There's a significant delta, in fact,

Der er faktisk en betydelig forskel på,

between what we're willing to accept.

hvad vi er villige til at tillade.

Apologies to Hans Rosling --

Undskyld til Hans Rosling,

he said anything that's not using real stats is a lie --

som har sagt, at alt, der ikke bygger på statistik, er en løgn

but the big delta there

Men hvordan takler vi det

is how we deal with this from a public standpoint.

- set ud fra den offentlige holdning til emnet?

So we've developed certain tactics and strategies

Vi har udviklet nogle taktikker og strategier

to cover up.

til at skjule vores onlineadfærd.

This first one's called "the lean."

Den første hedder "at læne sig op ad".

And if you've ever been in a meeting where you play sort of meeting "chicken,"

Hvis du har været til et møde, som passiv deltager,

you're sitting there, looking at the person, waiting for them to look away,

har du nok siddet og kigget på de andre, mens du ventede på, at de skulle kigge væk

and then quickly checking the device.

og så, lynhurtigt, lige tjekke din mobil.

Although you can see the gentleman up on the right is busting him.

Her afslører herren til højre ham dog.

"The stretch."

"Se sit snit"

OK, the gentleman on the left is saying, "Screw you,

OK, manden til venstre siger "Fuck dig,

I'm going to check my device."

jeg tjekker min mobil."

But the guy, here, on the right,

Men fyren til højre,

he's doing the stretch.

ser sit snit til at udnytte situationen.

It's that reeeee-e-e-each out, the physical contortion

Det er den der rææækken ud, en vriden sig,

to get that device just below the tabletop.

for akkurat at få mobilen ned under bordpladen.

Or, my favorite, the "Love you; mean it."

Eller min favorit: "Jeg elsker dig, helt sikkert."

(Laughter)

(Latter)

Nothing says "I love you"

Der er intet der udtrykker, "Jeg elsker dig", som:

like "Let me find somebody else I give a damn about."

"Lad mig give min opmærksomhed til nogle andre".

Or, this one, coming to us from India.

Eller, som den her fra Indien.

You can find this on YouTube,

Den ligger på YouTube.

the gentleman who's recumbent on a motorcycle

Manden ligger tilbagelænet på en motorcykel,

while text messaging.

mens han sms'er.

Or what we call the "sweet gravy, stop me before I kill again!"

- Stop mig, før jeg slår nogen ihjel!

That is actually the device.

Her ser I mobilen.

What this is doing is, we find a --

Vi ser en frontalkollision for os -

(Laughter)

(Latter)

a direct collision --

en kollision

we find a direct collision between availability --

mellem at stå til rådighed online

and what's possible through availability --

- og fordelen ved at være online -

and a fundamental human need -- which we've been hearing about a lot, actually --

og et fundamentalt menneskelig behov:

the need to create shared narratives.

behovet for at skabe fælles fortællinger.

We're very good at creating personal narratives,

Vi skaber personlige fortællinger

but it's the shared narratives that make us a culture.

Men det er de fælles fortællinger, der skaber vores kultur.

And when you're standing with someone,

Når du er sammen med nogen,

and you're on your mobile device,

og du bruger din mobil,

effectively what you're saying to them is,

er dét, du egentlig siger til dem:

"You are not as important as, literally,

"Du er ikke så vigtig, som alt det,

almost anything that could come to me through this device."

jeg kan finde via min mobil".

Look around you.

Kig dig omkring

There might be somebody on one right now,

Der er sikkert nogle der, lige nu,

participating in multi-dimensional engagement.

deltager i en onlinesamtale.

(Laughter)

(Latter)

Our reality right now is less interesting

Virkeligheden lige nu er mindre interessant,

than the story we're going to tell about it later.

end den historie, vi vil fortælle om den senere.

This one I love.

Jeg elsker denne her.

This poor kid, clearly a prop --

Stakkels fyr, en "rekvistit" -

don't get me wrong, a willing prop --

misforstå mig ikke, en "villig rekvisit" -

but the kiss that's being documented kind of looks like it sucks.

Men det dokumentrede kys virker - kedeligt.

This is the sound of one hand clapping.

Her ser I lyden af én hånd, der klapper.

So, as we lose the context of our identity,

Når vi således mister vores fælles identitet

it becomes incredibly important

bliver det utroligt vigtigt,

that what you share becomes the context of shared narrative,

at det, du deler, er en sammenhængende fortælling

becomes the context in which we live.

- den sammenhæng, som vi lever i.

The stories that we tell -- what we push out --

De historier som vi fortæller og poster

becomes who we are.

bliver til de personer, vi er.

People aren't simply projecting identity,

Vi projicerer ikke bare vores identitet,

they're creating it.

vi skaber den.

And so that's the request I have for everybody in this room.

Dét er min anmodning, til jer alle i rummet her.

We are creating the technology

Vi skaber den teknologi,

that is going to create the new shared experience,

der skaber nye, fælles oplevelser,

which will create the new world.

som vil skabe den nye verden.

And so my request is,

Mit anmodning er derfor:

please, let's make technologies

Lad os skabe teknologier,

that make people more human,

der gør folk mere menneskelige

and not less.

og ikke mindre.

Thank you.

Tak.