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Saturday, May 19, 2012

I crashed, a new intimate digital experience has emerged

Nike Fuelband has managed to seduce me. I love the soft feel, and the way it comes to life. I got it two weeks ago and set-up worked very well. Turning it on is close to magical, the device lits up and you get progress feedback on the line of colour LEDs, showing how much you have to your daily goal. The Nike Fuelband takes the Nike brand into the casual space. The emergence of 24/7 wearables was one of the themes of the 2012 Fjord digital trends, for which I am the editor for. I also wrote about them in Wired in September 2011. The Fuelband is a 16/7 wearable, I wear it during my awake time. It took only few days to get me to want to put it on along my clothes in the morning.

Last Tuesday it could not sync, I tried the app, the Mac app, nothing worked. Suddenly I got a new feeling, I had crashed. My day was not getting recorded. I finally reset the Fuelband to loose the day of recording. (Valeria from the Nike support team suggested a fix that worked, thanks! To empty the cache and cookies for Nike in the browser.) I was really surprised about my reaction. I then started thinking about it. I have worked with crashing technology for past 20 years, yet this crash was different. I finally came to the conclusion that the Fuelband had crossed a line from personal to intimate technology. The Fuelband is in some way an extension of self. I suspect this is an inflection point. I am of the opinion that wearables is the next mobile frontier, for example expressed here.

The Fuelband is more jewelry than sports instrument. It has been criticized for not being exact and factors like weight and age has no impact. I am not sure if this is a problem or not. My assumption is that function creates a longer lasting relationship than form. At Fjord we argue that one can create a business that either appeals to the brain or the hearth. Businesses that appear to the hearth have a greater potential to create value. The Fuelband in some ways challenges this concept by making jewelery more scientific it should lock me deeper, appealing to my brain and making it more jewelry like increases its value as an object. It is thus on a trajectory of mega value, creating passionate users. I think we could have passionate love relationships to our jewelry wearables, it is what makes them intimate. This is big.

When I first got home with the Fuelband, we were sitting having dinner. At the end of the dinner Lu asks what I am wearing. I say it is the Nike Fuelband. No reaction, neither her, nor Sofia 14. I would try to surprise them. I stretched out my hand pressed the button, the Fuelband lit up and then something surprising takes place. Both scream in amazement, spontaneous WOWs and immediately Lu says she want one. Lu wants it in a different colour and wonder if one could have one with hooks for Charmes. Sofia starts a super active campaign to get one, or atleast take mine to school. This frenzy lasts for 20 minutes. I have brought home lots of different gadgets, and the reaction to this is in a class of its own. It supports my intuition. The ‘Wife and Teenage Daughter’ test is past with great clear margin.

I think there is a killer opportunity to fuse jewelry and functionality for a 24/7 wearable. The Jawbone UP is also supposed to be used 24/7, but sleep detection is a manual activity, and forgetting it creates wrong data. This creates problems for users and they loose interest. The problem is that these gadgets do not naturally latch onto a ritual. One close at hand with wearables is setting the alarm for the next morning. It should be possible to design a new digital ritual, where one sets an alarm and confirm by going to sleep. I was thinking how to keep the jewelry like feel and create a richer, yet elegantly simple interface. My thoughts naturally gravitate to my force and touch sensor and the ability to make one or two keys into smart keys enabling click, touch and force sensing. With two keys one should be able to design a usable interface enabling for example alarm or sleep activation. It is still early days for wearable jewelry, but it is absolutely a fascinating domain.

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Saturday, May 05, 2012

Today a new experience awaits - Running a Half Marathon

About 10 months ago I started a new hobby running. Today I have my first milestone big milestone, running the Helsinki City Run, a half marathon. I started running, mainly as I realised that my energy levels were low last spring and I felt I was gaining weight. The catalyst for the change was the amazing Fjord Journey to the glaciers and Fjord of Greenland. On a 8 day adventure we were hiking and living in primitive environment, and I wanted to be sure I was fit for it. I trained for 3 months, and after that I was in the groove and continued. In the winter I thought, lets go further, to the Half Marathon. Fjord was setting up a running group, though I did not train with the group, it gave some good spiritual support. Last week I did a 17.75km run in 2.08, which felt good. Now my goal is just to complete it.

I get double motivation for running as it has become my special reading time, or actually listening to audio books. It is the time I have for myself, and being able to supertask, by running and listening to audiobooks, make the time spent extra special. I have read more book in the past year than I have in the recent 5 years.

I have also tracked my running, initially using Cyclemeter and lately on HeiaHeia. I currently track it on both services.

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Nike ID is a moving experience – Custom could stimulate care.

Since the early nineties when Joe Pine, published his seminal book on mass customization, I have been a fan of him. I had the chance to get to know him. He has time after time been a re-occurring inspiration for me.

As running has become a new hobby of mine, I want to be able to combine running and handluggage travel., Thus shoes had to shrink. At a jogging event, I studied the different models, and realized that the Nike Free runs would be my choice. I did not like the colours and saw my opportunity to live mass customization of Nike ID. Live the vision of Joe Pine.

The Nike ID concept is not a new thing. It has been live for more than 7 years. Today it offer amazing opportunities to design your own shoes. Shoes for a segment of one – Me. This is a moving experience. What blows me away is that there is no significant premium. I guess over the years some novelty value has worn off. When I start to think of what is going on I am still blown away. I design my own shoes and it does not blow the budget.

Bespoke clothing is not new, it was how clothing started. Today Bespoke is seen as luxury. The Nike ID experience is a very solid service experience, it has a clear and powerful proposition. You see the shoe in 3D, you can make own lables, you can even combine different element of different shoes. It is killer sophisticated and I recommend testing it if you have not done it before.

Joe, you were right this is the ultimate for of consumerism, these shoes are unique, they are designed by me, for me. It will be interesting to see if I will care & nurture for them more, due to the fact that I spent time thinking and designing them. There is a small piece of me in them.

Mass consumerism brings about a neglectence in the relationship to the object. A shirt bought, has little of you in it, so you just use it, you don’t care for it. If you take the effort to put skin in the game, then you probably increase the effort of care. If we would consume better and custom, would might stimulate care, and thus prolong the life cycle of objects, and subsequently use less resources as in most cases time and money are finite resources. If this would become the norm done on an aggregate scale it could become a green trend. Lets see.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Finns are really not as inconsiderate as Helena Eronen. Shame on you!

There has been a very distrubing blogpost written by Helena Eronen yesterday. She is an aid to a member of parlaiment James Hirvesaari. You can google translate the Helsingin Sanomat reference to the original post, now removed, why?. In it she suggested that minorities and ethnic people living in Finland should wear armbands, like jews wore in the Nazi Germany. This is such an absurd idea, that I urge Helena to resign or to James Hirvessaari to fire her.

I really do not think Finns are this stupid.

There are so many distrubing elements to this blogpost. First, if you blog, you blog. That means you put something out forever and you should be able to stand by it. The web does not forget. The whole point with blogging is you are your own editor and the rest of the web is your judge. If you write clever things you will be praised if you write stupid things you will be disliked. Once you press publish it is there forever. Every idea that one gets into ones head, might not be worth publishing. You are what you blog. Google, Facebook and Twitter makes it discoverable.

My second point about this blogpost is a total disqust. As a Swedish speaking Finnish Dane working globally, who trives from cultural diversity, who is liberal regarding sexual minorities, who is passionate about the good things in the Nordics and paranoid about the future (no natural resources, people getting lazier, I know Norway has oil, does not solve much.), this kind of writing makes me puke.

I sincerely appologize as a Finn to all my foreign friends living in Finland. Helena Eronen is an exception and should pay the price with her reputation.

Having these kind of workers in our government is a disgrace. What makes the world so interesting is that we have different cultures and rituals that we do not understand, that gives anyone interested an opportunity to learn. Learning is one essence of life.

Looking a very narrow example; Starbuck's, British Airways and English language. If these things would be everywhere the world would be a dull place. For reference, I am huge fan and regular of both Starbuck's and British Airways and English is how I communicate on-line. I just do not want the things I like to be omnipresent. Diversity Rules!

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Saturday, April 07, 2012

A MegaAge breakfast with iPad 3

The iPad 3 with its high resolution display is the first MegaAge mobile computer, one that is providing a Hi-Fi experience. My iPad arrived mid March and the digital life migrated into it. This iPad is my fourth one and a completely natural part of my life. I use it for business as well as pleasure and it follows me everywhere. The Laptop has been relagated to crunch tool. In fact I feel that the Mac feel old. The newest of the Macs at home is the Mac Mini and upgrading it last fall was a real dissapointment, everyone thought it was a slow laggard. I decided to rescue the situation with a boost of RAM to 8GB, luckily it helped, it probably also wants a solid state drive. What really blows my mind is I have about 1.8M more pixels on the iPad compared to my Macbook Air and it does not feel sluggish.

MegaAge is the first hi-fidelity digital era, bringing massive boost in quality of content and quality of experience. We want MegaAge experiences. The first ones emerging were HD movies, and now you expect to see movies and TV programmes in HD. MegaAge content should be enjoyed on big screens, in screens bigger is better, 10 years ago 32" was a big TV and now this would be 55" The latest Samsung and LGs are also going MegaAge with resolution. In a not too distant future we look at 100" being big.

Digital cameras and camcorders are pushing into 20 Mega pixels and most shoot HD 1080p video. The newest smartphones have leaped into the mega age. Nokia with a 41MP image sensor, producing amazing images, at full resolution is 10MB. Why should we not enjoy stunning images, video and content. This kind of leaps create experience transformations. The mega age devices challenge print for the first time. There is no reason why digital should be worse than print.

At the core of mega age is the simple concept of More is better. There is a very famous experiment with seagull chicks where scientist painted two red dots on a wooden stick instead of the single one on the beek of the seagull. The result is that he chicks pick at the two dot stick with frenetic intensity, much more than at the beek of the seagull. If the seagulls brain works like this, why would ours not. Professor Nigel Spivey beautifully demonstrated the intrest for more and exaggeration in his seminal documentary How Art Made the World. One of the senior designers at Fjord, Ossi Alho, captured this beautifully, when you enter MegaAge there is no way back. I have to agree with him.

The MegaAge comes with a darkside, the file sizes are exploading past the capability of storage and network. Couple weeks ago I was making some MegaAge slides, in fact 17 of them, it was a little report on the Mobile World Congress. It had rich detailed photography, it became a monsterous 220Mb file. The end product was a 1.5Mb pdf, what a loss. I had done something better, and delivered less. I wanted to give more, but I could not. Our networks, infrastructure of connectivity is not ready for MegaAge. Neither is our services, YouSendIt has a limit of sending 50MB files for free, and Gmail enables you to send 20MB in a mail. I could pay to send more via YouSendIt, but the business model is not following, I do not benefit from sending the higher res file. I suspect we will get network capacity problems in the mega age.

You might argue that MegaAge is nonsense, but lets look at more evidence evidence. The new Keynote on the iPad is 327 Mb where it was 110 Mb, the new Pages is 269 Mb compared to 95Mb. There seems to be a 3x size increase in visually rich apps if the apps take full advantage of the retina display and include high res content like video tutorials. If we assume that there is 4x as many pixels, one could argue that the digital magazines should also go MegaAge and boosting size to 2Gb for an issue of Wired.

Why should it be less, the raw material is anyway better. MegaAge is an age of more, more is more. More is better. You cannot argue with quality, no one wants to look at a low res photo if a high res version is available. The only rationale for lower res, would be to argue that it is art. Think of Instagram.

The iPad is now great video screen, enabling HD quality experience, the only problem is that 64GB is giving limited choice. Streaming is not an option on a mobile device hopping from base station to base station. My new iPad will become my photoeditor, a sort of sortstation for good images and bad ones, and then a bit of editing. Will be interesting to see if it has enough horse power to manage content in the MegaAge. But I suspect visual impact will trumph speed, storage and processing power, and hence the iPad 3 is the start of something new in computing. How exciting!

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Sony makes stunning progress in digital cameras in 13 years, next the Social Camera

My first digital camera was the Sony DCS-505, a stunning 2.1MP camera I bought as it was launched in Japan in 1999. Now 13 years and many digital cameras, lately the Ricoh GX-200 I return to a Sony camera. The NEX5 with a 24mm Zeiss 1.8 lens. The lens & camera was a birthday present of my dear friends and family (Thank you!). I have deliberately skipped DSLRs due to their size. I have shot a lot of pictures using cameraphones. What I need is great low light photography. I shoot, food and people, everyday things. Mostly to remember. With the NEX-5N I think I will do a bit of classic protography as art, lets see. I completely dig the NEX5N in low light, it is like a dinky black hole sucking all light around it.

We have come a long way in 13 years, yet I find it very interesting to notice how similar the DCS505 is to the NEX-5N is general bulk. Yet in performance one is a T-Ford and the other is a Beeltle, both destined to be classics.

It is interesting to see the raise of the Micro FourThirds, as the camera community prefers to call the category of cameras. The NEX is the emerging leaders of, if we judge it from Amazon best seller list. DPreview has the perfect review, I have nothing to add, except, the user interface of the camera is nothing less of a train wreck. It is full of features, but lack a clever UI style, one that enables creation of a mental map of how the camera works. I have now used it a couple of weeks, and I am still unsure where things are. It has lots of image control, but if we then think that much of the post image processing, and all of the social imaging features are missing. This cannot be added without a disruption and starting over.

Imagine taking the iPhone type body and sticking on a Zeiss lens. Imagine a camera manufacturer turning the camera into an a social app platform for imaging. I have no doubt that this will emerge, as the app platforms of Android is segmenting into smaller ecosystems like Kindle Fire. The question who is going to do this. The lenses on the one-hand and the SW apps, and services are providing both lock-in and service business models. The Recent Polaroid Android is heading in the right direction.

This is in my mind the future of digital cameras, a social camera. A type of 21^st century extension of the Brownie box. Designing this total image service experience would be a blast.

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Kodak moments fading into history

My hearth bleeds yellow as Kodak is fading away. This company has been dear to me in many ways. First of all I was literally fed on it, as my father being a photographer mainly used Kodak film. As I grew up beyond my Lego camera, I used to get a roll of Kodakcrrome and always cherished the fact that processing was included and after a while a box of vivid slides were returned in their paper frames. Kodak was my first proper summer job, when I spent time at their French factory mainly learning French, driving through Bourgogne, also doing some field tests of Kodakchrome. I remember once I got to dine in the Anselm Adams decorated guest cabinets, those black and white landscapes felt like they had vivid colours. Much later in 2002 as we were readying the first Series 60 device, the Nokia 7650 slider with a VGA camera, I remember one of the most iconic speeches by my mentor Anssi Vanjoki, where he proclaims for a packed audience at Mobile World Congress, how cameraphones would kill the chemical photography industry, and how Nokia would become the largest camera manufacturer.

Not much later I got into the digital photo business, creating Nokia Lifeblog with my team. At the same time I met the Kodak guys, actually the folks of Ofoto who, Kodak had acquired. Ofoto was the largest deposit of digital photos on the planet. As we were readying our product we realised the power of the Kodak IPR portfolio, and decided to give an early preview of what we were doing and wanted them as printing partners. The Kodak and Nokia partnership became strong, and I even got to demo Lifeblog for Anthony Perez, the CEO of Kodak. Not much later the relationship exploded as Kodak decided to sue everyone in the industry. Grossly simplified it is impossible to make a digital camera without violating Kodak IPR.

The Kodak guys practically invented digital photography, there is a legend, that Kodak had a skunksworks where they built the first digital consumer camera, but could not launched it, so they got Apple to launch it instead. As the Kodak guys feared that it would cannibalize the film business. I do not know how much if any is true.

As Kodak sued everyone they did not win friends. I think I was personally the only winner in this relationship, as I won some wonderful friend for life.

What really triggered this post was a strategic opinion I had at the time. I was of the opinion what Kodak should have done, was to use their IPR to get back to their roots, and make digital camera's, but not the physical ones, they were making, but truly digital, as apps in the camera phones. I saw this as a fantastic opportunity to re-introduce the brand to a younger audience, and to claim single button access to the UI. The handset vendors could have protested, and given chance to pay. What is so ironic is that we now have hugely popular start-up like Instagram, which to some degree lends its name from an iconic Kodak brand the Instamatic. I am well aware that this would probably not have fed the Kodak staff of 20000 or so, but it would not have wiped them out of conscious. It would have led to a business of add-ons like digital albums, image sharing, printing, all from the camera. Maybe even Facebook would not have become the place for sharing images. Who knows, main point images of us define us, and no one knew that better than George Eastman.

George Eastman, is one of my innovation heroes. The creation of the Brownie box and using simplification tactics referring to a popular children's cartoon the Brownies, indicating that photography is easy as child’s play is an innovation and marketing master piece. Maybe he should be credited giving birth to the gadget industry, as the camera was one of the first must have gadgets of the 20th century. Their iconic advertising targeted to women, encouraging them to capture family events as Kodak Moments. Thanks to George Eastman and his team, the 21st century was well documented from my grandfathers onward. The Brownie box was a much bigger societal transformer, up there alongside the mobile phone and the personal computer.

At some point in time there were more than 100 firms in Rochester making camera lenses. Kodak was the biggest camera manufacturer for a long time. To see Kodak seeking for bankruptcy protection does make my heart bleed yellow. I can only think what if, we all would use Kodak cameras in our phones, this is not the case, but at least I have my friends and my memories. Long live the memories of Kodak Moments.

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

End of an era

Most of my adult life I have subscribed to a daily newspaper. Today this ends. I have stopped my subscription to Helsinging Sanomat, Finland's largest daily. It has been a slow death, at the end I had it coming only on week-ends.

The iPad has been the catalyst. I prefer to read on my iPad, and what I read is on-line stuff, mainly using Flipboard. It is my universal destination for reading media. Most days starts in Flipboard. For me the death of the newspaper took 20 months. The key reason is its poor user interface. It commands too much real-estate on the table. It is noisy and it smells bad.

As I have saw this slow death coming, I started pondering on the content. In the past few months, the ratio of interesting to nonsense was really striking. Sometimes I only found 2-3 intersting stories, endless amount of small irrelevant ads and increasingly yesterday's news.

Does this mean end of media, death of content? I think not. On the contrary we are living in an era with abundance of content. What we have is a distribution and power control struggle. We also have a massive business model problem. Consumers are not used to pay for content, and in the digital screen real-estate is scarse.

The distribution is analogue, we live in a digital era. The user interface is analogue, we live in a digital era. With the emergence of tablets, and abundace of LCDs we have more opportunities than ever before.

I think following 6 things need to happen:

1. Think aggregation. Use your media brand reputation as an aggregator. Aggregate anything that can be aggregated, smaller brands, bloggers, soccer mums and experts. As media you are in the timeshare business. Flipboard is a guide guide if you lack imagination.

2. Think local head global tail. People live locally and care about the what is close. Make local the hero content, a fallen tree on the neighbours house is a bigger story than a storm on the riviera. This require creation of an open source media operating system, into which people can publish. Mash-up a Instapaper with Wordpress

3. Celebrate the good journalist. Focus on quality, let journalist produce what they excel in, telling stories, rather than fill text around ads. Reward journalist based on readership, sort of performance based journalism. This is hard as requires some kind of disruption. Look at GigaOm and their network of contributors.

4. Enable micropayments. I am a believer in that people will pay for content. If users en mass has paid for ringtones, buying TV episodes, I do think they will pay for good stories. Journalist produce much more content than editors allow to be published, let the fans read and see the backstories. With micropayments this could be monetised.

5. Price for volume, price content in the digital world with a volume, I think the pricing of media on the iPad does not encourage uptake. A newspaper should not cost more than €.99, once there is usage advertisers will come and someone will invent new forms of monetisation. Before you have usrs, you have nothing.

6. Provide a personal library. Supplying a cloudbased digital library and clipbook would over time create an incredibly powerful lock-in. I would not mind subscribing to a media library of all the stories I have read. Look at Evernote, once one crosses a certain amount of content one is hooked.

I know this are all tall orders to achive, but eventually the force of disruption will act. Newspapers are dead, long live News.

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Nokia Lumina 800 meets the iPhone 4s. Magenta trumps black glass.

The Nokia Lumina 800 is like a fresh breath of air in the black world of smart phones. I got a Magenta test unit from Nokia and it feels very good. In the past 3 years I have not really used much else than an iPhone, every time I switch to Android I get disappointed, the experience is simply too unpolished in the details, and then it has typically too much customisation whipcream, so that you cannot taste what the flavour is. I hope Motorola/Google will clean it up.

I of course got an iPhone 4s when it came out and upgraded to it. It was more painful than before. I ended up using my iPad back-up to restore, it took a whole evening, and I was not happy. The iPhones 4s is better, but marginally less better than the 3gs was at the time. The 3gs felt like a big step for an upgrade. The 4s feels like a small step. I understand that much has changed under the hood and particularely in the cloud. But doing the whole iCloud, and being a paying MobileMe user, filling up my iCloud with BackUp got me simply to say no thank you to iCloud. Please let there first be some iSunshine. Only the camera got me excited. Despite fighting back, I got bored, very bored. I think we will see some iPhone fatigue creep in this holiday season.

My last hope was to get Siri to fall in love with me, but when introducing her to the family thought she was well - blond… I just do not have that much to tell her, and when I do she does not understand me. I do have an accent, sort of Finnish, Scandinavian, Swedish, some people think Dutch. It is not as strong as many other non native speakers of English and yet she has problems with it. I think she would learn over time, but in this relationship there is not much time, when I am bored.

Just as I got bored I got a hot looking Magenta Lumina, it does illuminate my everyday. I was really jazzed up after Nokia world, not since the N95 have I seen the Nokia guys as fired up. Stephen Elop has been like a fresh breath of simplicity at Nokia. Less of that big word mumbo jumbo delivering next year; simply more of less everywhere. I really liked the new service strategy of calling the services, by the natural language name. Music is music, drive is Drive. No more branding, just deliver the stuff that matters.

The phone is very responsive, the basics work. The camera is great. We did a bit of comparing of displays, loaded the video cover for Coldplay’s Paradise, which essentially has all colours in a picture, and the display outshines the iPhone display in every way. The iPhone on the other hand is louder. The kids liked the new Nokia, particularly to videos on, 15 seconds to get to a video on YouTube got a spontaneous WOW. This comparing led to a spontaneous family focus group on what phones kids desire, at this point we had two 16 old boys, 14 year, 10 year old and 7 year old girls. One of the 16 year old boys was a guest The conclusion was unexpected. No one craved these new hot phones, and I sold hard. I even offered to give them, but gave them the chance to get €700 and use it as they wish. They opted for a ZTE Blade, which was what our guest had. It does the essentials, rest would be spent saving, partying, buying stuff for the moped, buying dolls. One of the iconic quotes, ‘I want a HTC Galaxy’. Seems it is not only me who gets confused about black phones with touch screens. Or is ‘ZTE and HTC not same company’. Or ten year old saying phones are not interesting. Time to step up innovation, the phone industry is in an incremental phase if there is any insight to be drawn from the family focus group.

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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Moved back to Finland after 6 years in London

On October 1st I moved back to Finland to be closer to the family and to Fjord Nordic team, our largest studio with fantastic buzz from the 24 different nationalities, it is like a buzzing United Nations of Innovation and design. I took on a new role of Chief Innovation Officer of Fjord. Commuting from one place to the rest of the world is easier, the biggest benefit with Helsinki is simplicity of life, and fastest access to Asia. The drawback is the darkness and the lack of people, there are only 5M people, making Helsinki a gigant village, but that has distinct benefits. Most livable city according to Monocle. What exicites me most is the reboot of the country that the country got forced into through Nokia's new strategy. There is a fantastic pool of experienced talent that learned to think global through Nokia and its subcontractors, combined with a very international generation of students, not afraid to change the status quo. We have a bit of a Hippie movement emerging around entrepreneurship. The government fused the the three leading schools, the Technical university, the Business school and the Design school into Aalto University, fostering cross functional education, a bit similar to what I carved out for myself 15 years ago. The students created Aalto Entreprenurial Society and is building top notch relationships globally. There is an increasing amount of start-ups funded with clever early stage government support and internally savvy investor entrepreneurs. This enabling very interesting start-ups to emerge. There is world-class mobile, gaming, wearables, design and embedded SW talent in the area. I am sure we will see some amazing companies emerge that will change the world. In short it is great to be back, let the reboot continue.

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