About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
The way we watch TV is evolving continuously. About 10 years ago, it was all about the size of your TV screen at home. While the bigger the better still applies in the living room, in the past two or three years, mobile broadband and the cloud have enabled TV content to be viewed on... Continue Reading →
When I was young, dating – or at least trying to date – consisted of slipping a note into a girl’s locker, or shuffling nervously towards her to ask her out with my friends offering humiliating support in the background. Today it’s much simpler. Ericsson’s ConsumerLab report, Social Life of the Young, looks into how US... Continue Reading →
Lately, I have written a number of posts about creative individuals whose product, talent and service innovations are turning the traditional market logic upside down. Previously, homegrown innovators and artists never reached beyond their friends and family. Today, however, they are competing with corporation heavyweights and entertainment superstars by simply being recommended and pushed forward by social... Continue Reading →
In a post I published last week, I wrote about the game changers – the innovative individuals who are creating their own products and services, and placing them online. Consumers that embrace social innovation and entrepreneurship are now taking the lead in determining what is interesting and what is not when it comes to the latest goods... Continue Reading →
How can business and the public sector adapt to – and utilize – the power of creative people? In the latest Ericsson Business Review, I wrote an article about the game changers – the creative and entrepreneurial individuals who are bringing their innovations to global social networks and letting the public access their ideas, participate... Continue Reading →
Hopefully they wrote something nice about my keynote in the EL Diario Montanes! http://www.eldiariomontanes.es/v/20120627/sociedad/destacados/muchos-libros-desapareceran-lavadora-20120627.html
Yesterday I gave a keynote at the SAIL Summer School inSantander,Spain. SAIL stands for Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions. It is an EU founded project with leading telecommunication operators, vendors, and research institutions aiming to develop the Networks of the Future. As they write on their homepage “Today’s Internet rests on a foundation of technology,... Continue Reading →
In my previous post, I wrote that commuting is the biggest source of stress and frustration for people living in cities, according to a new Ericsson ConsumerLab report, City Life. So what makes city residents feel at ease? Social networking. Those who live in the city spend a large chunk of their time socializing. On average, a... Continue Reading →
I consider myself lucky. It takes me 15 minutes to drive to my work: Ericsson’s headquarters in Stockholm. It takes me 25 minutes if I ride my bicycle, 40 minutes if I run, and 45 minutes if I take public transport. Depending on the method of transport I choose, the maximum I have to travel... Continue Reading →
This week, the New Cities Summit takes place in Paris; a city that has experienced groundbreaking changes in city planning – think Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Haussman was famous for modernizing Paris during the mid-19th century. The reconstruction of Paris involved all aspects of urban planning, including the demolition of 27,000 of the city’s 66,000 buildings. This... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 