Dan's Blog (2.0) » futureology http://www.torgo.com/blog Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:39:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Timo Veikkola on the Future of Design http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/timo-veikkola-on-the-future-of-design.html http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/timo-veikkola-on-the-future-of-design.html#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:13:10 +0000 Daniel Appelquist http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/timo-veikkola-on-the-future-of-design.html Just a quick note: I’m now listening to Timo Veikkola of Nokia who’s title is “Sr. Future Specialist”. Timo’s talking about the values that will drive service and hardware design in the future. Great stuff, especially after the somewhat fluffy presentations from Target and MTV which basically amounted to “here’s how we’re selling you more stuff.” Timo is completely blowing them away – wow.

“Devices will become intimate companions.” I believe this is true (though it raises a number of privacy and security issues). This vision of the future could easily turn into a dystopian nightmare if these issues are not correctly understood.

“Leapfrogging” – users in developing markets will use the mobile device first as a connected [Internet] medium and will effectively leapfrog the existing [PC] paradigms.

“Semantic Search & Find” – the importance of giving people the information they are looking for with far greater accuracy then is currently happening on the PC Web.

Cool stuff. Nokia continues to push the envelope.

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