When everything is connected

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139192255.002

1 - When everything is connected

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014

Olli Ikkala and

M. A. Uusitalo and

Tapani Ryhänen: Affiliation:
Nokia Research Center, Cambridge
Mikko A. Uusitalo: Affiliation:
Nokia Research Center, Helsinki
Olli Ikkala: Affiliation:
Helsinki University of Technology
Asta Kärkkäinen: Affiliation:
Nokia Research Center, Cambridge
T. Ryhänen: Affiliation:
Nokia Research Center
M. A. Uusitalo: Affiliation:
Nokia Research Center
A. Kärkkäinen: Affiliation:
Nokia Research Center

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Introduction

Mobile communication and the Internet

The Internet has created in only one decade a global information network that has become the platform for communication and delivering information, digital content and knowledge, enabling commercial transactions and advertising, creating virtual communities for cocreating and sharing their content, and for building various value adding digital services for consumers and businesses. The Internet phenomenon has been a complex development that has been influenced by several factors – an emerging culture that shares values that are brilliantly summarized by Manuel Castells [1]:

The culture of the Internet is a culture made up of a technocratic belief in the progress of humans through technology, enacted by communities of hackers thriving on free and open technological creativity, embedded in virtual networks aimed at reinventing society, and materialized by money-driven entrepreneurs into the workings of the new economy.

The Internet can be characterized by four key elements: Internet technology and its standardization, open innovation based on various open source development tools and software, content and technology creation in various virtual communities around the Internet, and finally on business opportunities created by the Internet connectivity and access to the global information. The history and the origin of mobile communication are different and have been driven by the telecommunication operators and manufacturers. Digital mobile communication has focused on providing secure connectivity and guaranteed quality of voice and messaging services. The key driver has been connection, i.e., establishing a link between two persons.

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Information: Nanotechnologies for Future Mobile Devices , pp. 1 - 20

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139192255.002 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2010

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