Daniel Kaplan
CEO
Organization: FING - The Next-Generation Internet Foundation
Daniel Kaplan is the founder and CEO of the Next-Generation Internet Foundation (FING), a collective and open nexus of ideas and projects on tomorrow's Internet's uses, applications and services. He is also chairman of the European Institute for e-Learning (EifEL).
As a member of the European Commission's e-Europe's Experts Chamber, as well as of the French Prime Minister's Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies (CSTI), Daniel Kaplan is deeply involved in the Internet's development and evolution.
Mr. Kaplan has written or directed 15 books and public reports on the internet, mobility, e-commerce, e-education and electronic media.
Daniel was at LIFT06.
Wrap up : What Technology? What Society?
LIFT is a conference about Technology in Society.
On the techno side, 4 takeaways: Technology woven into the fabric of society and space; Technologies of disorder (or innovation, if you prefer); Technology that assert themselves instead of dissolving into existing spaces and things; Technologies for building, expressing, disguising, communicating identity.
On the societal things, one HUGE worry: That we, the geeks, may be building an ideological bubble for ourselves where the world is transparent, fluid and equalitarian, where problems solve themselves by sheer understanding or even self-organization... But this world is also one where borders are evers harder to cross for (poor) people; Where walls and fences are being built along borders and inside cities ; Where most democracies are at war someplace or other. And the technologies we are developing and using to change the world in, we like to think, a bottom-up, highly democratic way, are
also used to achieve these things.
We, the geeks, must reconnect to the messiness of the real world. We must wise up to the reality and even the legitimacy of Power and Conflict. We must realize that out technologies are rather efficient for solving "local" problems, but that their contribution to solving the larger problems (global warming, etc.) remains at best unproven.
And on a lighter note, we must give more credit to the pure power of Fun, of uselessness, of misappropriation and chance, in the relationship between society and technology.
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