About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
I recently read a review in the Guardian about Frank Trentmann’s 1.5 kg book “How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First”, that is spot on a subject we are working hard on right now. I’ve bought an e-book version already, but – like an old-fashioned consumer – I feel a... Continue Reading →
The essence of industrialization was to automate the production of things, which in turn brought about the industrialization of people, changing work and workplaces. People went from producing their own food at the countryside to producing stuff in the factories, for the stores in the cities. And so the modern consumer was born. But times are... Continue Reading →
In my last post over the holiday season, I examined the increased usage of convenient and fast digital services and consumption experiences, and how that somewhat paradoxically also drives more analog – and often passionate – experience of crafting things physically, which is encouraged and reinforced by online communities for nearly any topic you can imagine.... Continue Reading →
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A few days ago I wrote a new post on how working life is changing as we enter the Networked Society and eight areas that we will see more of at work. Read the post at the Networked Society blog >>>
It’s no longer just the early adopters who are driving the growth of smartphone and mobile internet usage. Now we’re all doing it! More and more people around the world have smartphones and we are expanding the way we use them – from keeping track of our health to being on top of our social... Continue Reading →
You might love your devices, your smartphone, tablet, TV or laptop. But it’s no longer the love to the device itself that is that strongest love. As the services we are using become networked, the cloud becomes our love. Services used to be implemented locally in the mobile phone and phones used to contain a... Continue Reading →
Nice tool for visualization of insights in online & offline purchase behavior. Try it out at the: http://www.consumerbarometer.com
When I met Professor Stephen Heppell in London last month, he raised interesting ideas about measuring the learning process. He said that in the future, we will start to measure our learning in the same manner as many of us today have started to measure our health or our sports activities. As the services and... Continue Reading →
We are in the midst of a great transformation in society. In our latest Networked Society report, “Learning and Education in the Networked Society” and the documentary film “The Future of Learning” we take a closer look at this change. Today, there are 2.5 billion young people who were born after 1991. A significant... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 