Summer Lab 2010

This year’s Summer Lab will research the consequences of omnipresent social technologies. Going through the three stages of hype-trend-zeitgeist, we will observe the moment when technology becomes magic. Then we’ll see how every technology at some point becomes so normal, so widespread and so boring that - only then - it will start to get really socially interesting as Shirky eloquently put it. Looking into these paradoxes we hope to discover new ways to put technology to work in a way that acknowledges human values.