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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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The blind leading the deaf
A recent HarvardBusiness.org article about the use of anthropology and ethnography in global R&D strategies (blogged about here), has got Nokia’s user anthropologist...
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We are all hackers now (ctd.)
In my ongoing exploration of the theme “we are all hackers now” (also the title of a talk I will give on 29 June in Brussels), I once again found quite a lot of...
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The social life of health information
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a report that shows how Americans’ pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online...
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The rules for balancing technology and relationships
Emma Cook asks in The Times of London if our increasing desire to stay in the loop is distracting us from the people who should matter the most in our lives. “According...
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From business to buttons
Interaction designers, business strategists and usability experts gathered last week in Malmö, Sweden for the third edition of the “From Business to Buttons” conference...
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Identity crisis in the West and innovation in the developing world
Nokia’s Ideas Project published two feature stories today: Digital We: A (Multiple) Identity Crisis We create new digital identities almost without limit – at the...
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Nokia to offer Life Tools for rural mobile users
Nokia plans to roll out its Life Tools group of services to more emerging markets following a successful pilot program in India, a company executive said Monday...
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Smartphone rises fast from gadget to necessity
The increasing popularity of BlackBerrys, iPhones and their kin owes as much to sociology as technology. Steve Lohr reports in The New York Times. “The smartphone...
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Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent speaker at TEDGlobal
Stefana Broadbent, the acclaimed tech anthropologist, will be an invited speaker at the upcoming TEDGlobal conference (21-24 July, Oxford, UK). Stefana is currently...
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US Government providing cellphones for the poor
A US federal program providing subsidized phone service now offers cellphones, showing how much society values them, reports The New York Times. “The users are...
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Products are worthless
A somewhat controversial post by Helge Tennø, strategic director and digital planner at digital agency Screenplay in Oslo, Norway. “Products are just stuff, and...
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In South Korea, all of life is mobile
Somehow I missed out on this 24 May New York Times article about South Korea being the test case for the mobile future, thanks to its high-speed wireless networks...
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Bill Thompson, BBC tech art critic at the Venice Biennale
Bill Thompson, back from the Venice Biennale, reflects on digital art and its relationship with technology. “While there was a lot of interesting art, I saw little...
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What will mobile phones look like 10 years from now?
When Fast Company asked some people in the industry what mobile phones will look like 10 years from now, the first couple of answers seem to reinforce my gut feeling...
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Reflections on ethnography in the new issue of Stanford
The latest issue of Ambidextrous, Stanford University’s journal of design, has just been published. The issue is entirely online. Two of my favourite articles: Mind...
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The participatory web
Web 2.0 solutions offer people in rural areas a platform for networking and knowledge exchange. This brochure, published by GTZ, provides a systematic overview...
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Open innovation inside Nokia
With faith that smart ideas will prevail, Nokia urges workers to say what’s on their minds
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R&D 2.0: fewer engineers, more anthropologists
Navi Radjou argues on the HarvardBusiness.org Voices blog that R&D in emerging markets needs fewer engineers and more anthropologists. “To effectively identify...
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