I willingly let someone else,

kill the animals I eat.

I eat meat.

Consumption Asks:

 * economic impact

* corporate  influence

* governmental regulations

* and individual beliefs

agency of the individual

The abstract principle that autonomous beings, agents, are capable of acting by themselves

Not Defined

* Agency of the another person or group, e.g. ad agency

* Philosophical. Social structure and individual capacity.

* Religious agency. The will of God. 

giving up what?

TRacking

* Bits of code that follow you, share data, and collect data

* Device Data: operating system, web browser, location, time of day
 

* User Data: Demographic, website history, trackers

* Tracker: Where were you? What did you go next? How about a suggestion of where to go next?

Decision Making

Privacy

Being Fallible (Human)

Who Cares? It's Convenient. 

An Annoyance at Worst? 

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QR Codes

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* Many months, scanned every QR code I could find

* For many months scanned every QR code I could find. Nothing of value. Absolutely nothing. 

What is it?

* QR or Quick Response Codes

* Like bar code, but can also:
    * track usage history
    * access device information

     * add to contact info

     * send text or email

     * get/send files
     * set or get ad tracker

discovered

Not convenient at all
    * Find app that was reputable
    * Install app
    * Open, scan ( scan again)

    * This app has too many ads. Find new app. Upgrade to remove ads. Ads. Ads. Ads.

 * Vast amount of tracking of user data. Middle man layers to gather data. Rarely, went straight to destination. 

* Guilt: Years extolling its values. Taught others to use it. It could do more a barcode. More than utility. Great convenience

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QR DOllAR

QR code

QR GOLD

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 In making QR codes more beautiful.

It lost all utility.

It stops working.

why are we giving up?

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the most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity. - Peter Drucker (1957)

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antisocial tech

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Distraction free

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Fan via robot

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conclusions

invented intelligence

* Apples Siri, Microsoft Cortana, & Amazon Echo all want to make decisions for you

* Self Driving Cars

* Apps to detect & fix emotions

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The water UI

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* There are costs to "free"

* To this day, I continue to teach, design, work with and for advertisers

* Reevaluate my role

* Continue to be an early adopter of technology

* Would I pay for more privacy and less user tracking? Would you? 

I still eat meat. Knowing something had to die.