Mohammed Gawdat, Is Technology Democratizing Our Perspective?

“Your way is not the only way of doing things,”  Mohammed Gawdat

“We come with the equation that I am right and if I am right the other guy is wrong,” Mohammed Gawdat

Some highlights from Gawdat’s talk include:

With the spread of Mass media so knowledge spreads. Information is manufactured at scale.  With the abundance of information you become passive and take in information. There has been an increase in cross-cultural misunderstandings.

The internet is changing. What does the Internet do? How do people use it?

People learn and acquire knowledge

People communicate

People participate

People socialize

People are willing to use or not use the Internet.

Some statistics shared include:

 Google gets billions of questions a day. 250,000 words get written every minute of every day on a blog.

In 2008, 210 billion emails were sent. 130 million articles ...