RADICAL MOBILIS
Three stories of the mobile future.
Blogger, consultant and CEO Teemu Arina, Dicole Ltd.
November 2008

ROUND1
Moving or changing quickly from one
Mobile state or condition to another

Corporations of the Past

Speeding on a Tightrope
Focus. Purpose. Clarity. Commitment.

Throwing Darts
Photo: Will hybrid

Linear Cause and Effect

We Move From the Mechanical Age of
Speed to the Digital Age of Real-Time

“ We might already be beyond the
age of speed, by moving into the
age of real-time. The move towards
real-time is one way out of the
world of speed”
Ivan Illich (1996)

Complexity
Nove
lty

Linear Complicated Complex
Known Knowable Perceive and adapt

Electronic Mycelium

Technology as extension of man.
Man as extension of technology.

Man-Machine Symbiosis
– J. C. R. Licklider, 1960

Organic Enterprise

Agile + Adaptive + Real-time

(Commons-based) Peer Production

Open Innovation

Crowdsourcing

www.realtimeeconomy.net

Quadruple Helix
Principle
Public
Private
Research
Crowd

“Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness.
'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We
now live in a global village...a simultaneous
happening. Electric circuitry profoundly
involves men with one another.
Marshall McLuhan (1967)

ROUND2
Undergoing a shift in status
Mobile

Tribalism and mobile developers
Symbian/IPhone Web Open Source Interaction
developers developers developers designers
etc...

Need for Cross-pollination
Tribes
Concepts
Devices
Designers
Events

WHAT’S WRONG WITH EVENTS

TOP DOWN EVENTS – ONE WAY

SOME ARE EVEN WORSE...

BOTTOM UP EVENTS – TWO WAY

PASSIVE – STATIC

PARTICIPATIVE – ALSO ONLINE

RESULTS INEFFECTIVELY SHARED

RESULTS EFFECTIVELY SHARED

Various Event Types
CONFERENCE
a ch
FORM
re
a nd
g et
ud
UNCONFERENCE
B
SCALE
SMALL EVENT LARGE EVENT

Plan Confirm
Spark
I wish there was an Let’s plan an event Extended event website
event for... together...

Bantora main site
Aggregate Aggregate
?
Extended event sites

Before
Iterative Planning
Planners Participants
‣Checklists ‣Schedule
‣Dates ‣Presenters
‣RSVPs ‣Methods
‣Topics ‣Venue

During
Extended Events
Online Face-to-face
Blogs Wikis Networking
Tags
Seeds Media Feeds

After
Online Sharing
Experience Reflection
‣Presentations
‣Notes and recordings
‣User-generated content
‣Lessons learned
‣Social media marketing

Before During After
Iterative Planning Extended Events Online Sharing
Planners Participants Online Face-to-face Experience Reflection
Planner Community
‣Best practices & methods
‣Sponsors
‣Speakers
‣Service providers
‣Content

contribute!
make it happen!
initiate! participate!
DEVELOPER

social website!
cost-efficiently!
faster! smoother!
PLANNER

Coming in 2009

ROUND3
Changeable in appearance,
Mobile mood, or purpose

Zeitgeist
Tomorrow is our Permanent Address

If Henry Ford had asked people
what they wanted, they would
have said “faster horses”.

Incremental Disruptive
Safe Uncertain

Forging Sampo
¨
Elias Lonnrot

Fabricator - Magic Wand

Yggdrasil
Tree of knowledge
Mindsphere
Social Web

Pattern Recognition

Organizational
Neuroplasticity
How experience leads to change.
Photo: Andrew Mason

Communities Blur
}
Long-term
Short-term
Ad-hoc

Communities Blur
}
Physically
Ideologically Connected
Virtually

Yourspace

Wespace

AVATAR(A)
an embodiment, a bodily
manifestation of the Divine.
The descent of God.

METAVERSE
Humans (as avatars) interacting
with each other and software
agents, in a three-dimensional
space that uses the metaphor
of the real world.
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash (1992)

Personas and Masks

Mobiles as Mirrors of
Ourselves

Holoself
“Mobile” sensory input

\"It is the framework which changes
with each new technology and not
just the picture within the frame.\"
Marshall McLuhan

Contact
Teemu Arina Email teemu@dicole.com
CEO, Dicole Ltd. Blog tarina.blogging.fi
Company www.dicole.com
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
– Albert Einstein