Nokia design director on mobile future
Next year there will be more than 2 billion mobile phone users in the world. Marko Ahtisaari, Director of Design Strategy at Nokia, outlines seven challenges to our shared mobile future: reach, sometimes off versus always on, hackability, social primitives, openness, simplicity and justice.
The post is a revised version of a talk given at the Ars Electronica 2005 Symposium “Hybrid” at the invitation of Derrick de Kerckhove.
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