About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
These design sketches are from about year 2000. Mobile phone screens still had black and green screens and this is seven years before the first Apple iPhone was launched. I still have my R380 in a box together with most other phones I have used. I did these screen designs in a project where we... Continue Reading →
For those of us who have a smartphone and have access to the internet 24/7, with all the information that is out there and all the possibilities that it gives us, we tend to take the benefits for granted after a while. We have to remember that the majority of the 6.7 billion mobile subscriptions around the... Continue Reading →
In my last post, I wrote about two-way flexibility – about people trying to understand the new norms and rules in the changing landscape of work and leisure. In this post, I want to continue that discussion further and look into what issues arise as the private and personal spheres merge. In his book from 1963,... 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 →
Ratta in P4 i morgon! I veckan som gick var Sveriges Radio och intervjuade mig på jobbet om hur vi använder mobilen och våra tankar kring att byta telefon. Programmet Kossornas Planet sänds i morgon lördag 4/2 i P4 kl. 12.03. Men om du inte kan hålla dig så finns intervjun att lyssna på redan idag... Continue Reading →
We all have seen it happen in just a few years. Our phones – used only for phone calls and text messages – have become smartphones. We now use these Swiss army-like devices for many purposes, including entertainment, applications and internet services. Read this post at: http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/2011/07/21/children-in-the-smartphone-revolution/
There has been a lot of talk about augmented reality in the last few years and we now see that AR apps are hitting the market. I believe augmented reality will impact the way we interact with the physical world, how we get information about the world and how we learn. Read this post at: http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/2011/02/22/exploring-the-galaxy-with-augmented-reality/
A few nights ago, I was on my way to a restaurant in Barcelona. I was using a map application on my smartphone to find my way. I walked with my phone in my hand watching the little dot tracking my movements on the map, guiding me in the right direction. Suddenly I was standing waiting...... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 