'Storifying The Transfer Economy' with Joss Sessions

A lot has happened in the world since I last presented just 4 weeks ago. Many contrasting happenings shared and interacted in real-time which are remixed and spun out into other experiences all over the world in near time. The ever emergent and exciting live internet culture moves in murmations of moments and happenings, here and there, sparking various opportunities and differing consequences. Data points, system processes, businesses, services, parties and individuals all generate masses of data about goings on, and yet seemingly all we’ve figured out is how to sell more ads in exchange for more content. The consumption of consumption consumes itself.

The challenge; our outdated ideals and measures have been perfected to destruction and we are all suffering the consequences.

The Transfer Economy sets out to update our understanding, ideals and measures to reflect today’s capabilities and capacities. The intent is for you and I, the hyper-connected being in our connected communities and augmented environments to better understand our information flows across multiple states of being, throughout multiple sequences of time and our relevant jurisdictions. Better still, to have the choice of our everyday data interactions to be attributed as supplementary income.

In this presentation I will attempt to make this super fresh emergent idea relevant to our everyday happenings. It will cover many topics including data dignity and ethics, concepts of singular and plural self identity, our individual and collective purpose and our chance to stop pissing about with broken old systems and actually do something meaningful to meet the challenges of today. While the topics are heavy and complex, I come back to the presenting screen to tell the story in an attractive, possibly even seductive manner. Let me know how I do.

Joss Sessions biography

Joss Sessions is a bloke with Northern England. A cyborg anthropologist (don’t worry few know what that is either) looking at the relationship and impact technologies have on the humanities. He’s also the founder SlashDot Studios where they are presently developing The Container Engine to deliver the Transfer Economy.