Geek Army Knife

So… the globalisation 3.0 term is taken from the book “The World Is Flat” by Thomas L. Friedman.
In this episode we discussed the globalisation of individuals. We also discussed the return on investment VS return on meaning/involvement.

Anyway, one of the big paradoxes in business is that, usually, things don’t work out because of a cultural mismatch of values. Erich suggests that we leave the stereotypical values out and get to the real “value fingerprint” of people, in their own lives.

Links:

• shapeshifters.net
• wired article about “why the world is flat” (And if you want to get a free audio version of it, you might just get it by clicking here!)

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So Sanjay of Khanna Research was our mystery person to be interviewed for the Geek Army Knife #6. He met Stephanie and Bryan Rieger in Vancouver after he had worked with Nokia writing a thought paper on the future of play. The connection they shared was a mutual interest in mobile games. In the paper for Nokia, Sanjay talked about stress and anxiety increasing. As a response, the Nokia team commissioned Future Platforms in United Kingdom to develop a mobile toy called “Twitchr”. Twitchr is a casual game that Sanjay thinks is quite calming to play.

The reason this podcast episode is called “what Orwell didn’t predict” is that Mr. Orwell forgot to predict the rise of business/marketing/PR in his essay called “politics and the english language”.

Which is what is changing the world so drastically these days - Sanjay also comes with the notion that we will be having a reversal of stereotypes - which is quite interesting stuff =) - We talk about sustainability, economical resources and nothing less than the future of the world.

Links:

Sanjays blogpost about calm technologies

Video about “the long emergency”

George Orwells essay on “politics and the english language” from 1946

James Hansen page on Wikipedia

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So we have had the pleasure of having a Mobile User Experience designer on our incredibly useful podcast -  none other than the fantastic Stephanie Rieger.

We talked to Stephanie about the context of devices, about transiding from web to mobile, about “all the m’s” and how she believes that instead of replacing the things we know from the internet, the mobile is going to enhance them.

We also touch a bit on the digital divide…good stuff for proper tech enthusiasts =)

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