Note: This is the first in a series of posts that explore trends at the intersection of human behavior and technology that might emerge over the next three years from the convergence of other, established trends.
The Macrotrend:
The normalization of social behaviors on the web, in combination with the ability to centralize human networks via [...]
Published on October 21, 2009 7:15 am.
Filed under: People and Spaces, Things I Have Written Tags: barcode, functionality, innovation, mobile, new york times, platforms, scarcity, tools
Nation of Go
Its a new community where gearheads can get together to share their passion. Among many cool features, the site has a free mobile mapping application that lets you track drives, trails and racetracks and automatically upload them to your profile. It even adds geo-tagged pics, all from your smart phone. Its pretty cool stuff.
(via nationofgo)
Published on October 7, 2009 6:35 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: mobile, mobile mapping, passion
The above video was put together by the good people at Touch – a project based out of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design that is focused on technology that connects mobile devices to real-world objects (Near-Field Communication). The video is intended to illustrate the quiet omnipresence of wireless signals in the spaces that [...]
Published on March 30, 2009 12:49 am.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Devices Tags: digital, everyday objects, mobile, mobile phones, visualization
Two completely different perspectives on independence and telephony:
First, this today on Ars Technica:
Two UK mobile operators are reportedly fuming at Nokia for including a mobile version of Skype on its N97 handset. Both Orange and O2 are so terrified that the popular VoIP service will siphon away profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make [...]
Published on February 27, 2009 3:51 pm.
Filed under: People and Devices Tags: handset manufacturers, mobile, mobile operators, risk, skype handset, technology, voip service
Idris at Innovation Playground has this morning what is among the best posts I’ve read all week. Purporting that the number of social, economic, technological and environmental crisis facing us are increasing more quickly than our ability to assemble creative, innovative solutions to them:
There are a lot of myths about innovation and many organizations still [...]
Published on February 25, 2009 2:30 am.
Filed under: Ephemera, Notes on Things Seen Tags: corporate social responsibilities, creative destruction, global corporations, infrastructures, ingenuity gap, innovation, mobile, technological innovation
I posted last week about Jeffrey Sachs comments regarding the potential good that will eminate from extended mobile reach in Africa.
Today, something quite similar, and altogether different, via a post from Chris Muscarella1, in which he quotes Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society from Mobile Tech for Social Change:
“If you pair [...]
Published on February 23, 2009 9:29 pm.
Filed under: People and Devices Tags: berkman center, broadcast mechanism, fm transmitters, mobile, mobile phones, mobile tech, people, portable radio
It’s astounding, is it not, that not so far in our distant past technology was a novel topic – something to latch on to in an ephemeral manner (as in the above video for Kraftwerk’s ‘Musique Non Stop’?
GigaOM reports that, by 2013, video will comprise 64% of all mobile traffic. This is an astounding figure [...]
Published on February 17, 2009 8:15 am.
Filed under: Notes on Things Seen, People and Devices Tags: exabyte, local markets, mobile, sociological impact, subsistence, technology, traffic
Helge Tenno, always about six hours ahead of the rest of us on 180360720.no, has a great post today summarizing a panel from the PSFK Salon this past weekend focused on the mobile user in which he relates a discussion about a patchwork approach to location-based solutions.
Put more eloquently: Mobile is about people, not technology, [...]
Published on February 2, 2009 2:15 pm.
Filed under: Links, People and Devices Tags: location-based, mobile, people, place, technology