Ted Talk by Jan, who is a principal researcher for Nokia. He travels around the world and inside our pockets in search of behavioral patterns that will inform the design of products we don't even know w
on our mobile phones
connections and consequences:
3 bill by the end of this year will have cell phones (and this talk was in 2007)
when you walk out the door, what do you take with you, and of the things you take, what do you use the most.
what do you carry: (3 most important across cultures)
1. keys
2. money
3. mobile phone
why - for survival
1. keys - access to shelter and warmth and transport
2. money - to buy food and sustanence
3. cell - recovery tool
cells can transcend space and time
2004 - almost 800 mill who can't read and write worldwide
what does it mean when people's identities are mobile
the lifestrong bracelets personifies these connections..
what's it going to be like when everyone on the planet is connected... everyone can transcend space and time
four things:
1. immediacy of ideas - speed of which they go around, if you want a big idea, you need to embrace everyone on the planet
2. immediacy of objects - as the functionality becomes greater and the object becomes smaller,
3. as long as it meets base needs - people on the street will take it an innovate it
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more thoughts after reading Ben Wilkoff's post on what do we have time for:
i thought the whole focus (from Jan's talk above) of what do we use as our value-meter was a good one. do our words of what we value match up with what we actually do.
in your mind, no way would you love the guitar and not play it.
i think this awareness... looking at trends can be helpful with virtual tools and real life apps. the real life like your guitar story.. and even more important, time spent with people that matter. the google-meter i have on my ning site, has you google yourself and go five pages back... if those five pages aren't filled with at least 90% (can't remember exact %) of what you say you're about... you're not digitally distinct.
it's a zoom out method... like get pivot shows...
we get so focused on busyness or day to day.. but are we doing the right things? the things we want to be doing?..
i might have already shared this with you, but jason fried (wrote rework) says that work is where we get the least done. i'm thinking - a lot of times - life is where we get the least done - in comparison to what we really want to get done, or be about.
my son's fav song - blink - by revive, tells me we should change this up.
