44. What That Means with Camille: Socio-Technical Systems

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">What That Means</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Camille gets the definition, meaning, and importance of socio-technical systems from Intel Fellow and Chief Architect of socio-technical Systems, Maria Bezaitis. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The conversation covers important questions like: </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Why does the overlap of social and tech matter? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- How does it impact how we should be thinking about security and product design?</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">...and more! Don’t miss it!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Here are some key take-aways:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- While socio-technical isn’t a new term or concept, it is new to tech.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- For most of the developed world, social and tech are inextricably linked.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- The brevity of some interactions (like those in the IOT space) is not new. What the Internet and the tech evolution have done is increase the diversity and depth of those encounters. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  We love cities because they allow for more chance encounters, more shared experiences. But now, many of those chance encounters, those shared experiences, are happening online. We’re sort of co-creating worlds.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  With the younger generations, there’s less of a distinction between the online world and the ‘real’ world. There’s less consideration given to what gets shared online vs. what remains offline. They see the link between social and tech much more clearly and the two are virtually inseparable in their minds. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-  We want to believe security and privacy can be concepts with fixed