Category Socio-cultural change
European Futurists Conference presentations
Trendwatching website on Infolust
Whirlpool’s in.home project
Alarm over shopping radio tags [BBC]
Vodafone online magazine on mobile phones and the yearning factor
New report on the relationship between teens, technology and society
Disney offers teen-tracker mobile [BBC]
Designing for the base of the pyramid
Design for the Base of the Pyramid is an initiative by the IIT Institute of Design “to develop human-centered design strategies and concepts for new products, services and businesses capable of generating sustainable economic improvement in the lives of people…
In a wired South Korea, robots will feel right at home [The New York Times]
How Americans use their cell phones [Pew / Internet]
Lifestyle design: a new profession
The surveillance society
Forbes special report on communicating
Open up or shut up. The necessity of open marketing [Always On]
Open marketing assumes your customers are smarter than you, at every stage of the business process, from product build to post-sale service. "We have embarked on the maiden voyage of the open marketing revolution. From RSS to blogs, from podcasts…
Ethnographic survey on how 3G mobile phone use ‘change social habits’ [BBC]
The multitasking generation [Time Magazine]
Creative communities: a bottom-up perspective on welfare and local development
Nike, Google kick off social-networking site [Business Week]
African mobile phone subscribers hit 100 million mark [Mobile Africa]
The number of mobile telephone subscribers in Africa has risen from 8 million, five years ago, to 100 million, Kenya`s information and communication minister Mutahi Kagwe said Tuesday. He said one in every nine Africans subscribes today to a mobile…