April 20, 2009

Universal Remote

"We are inevitably moving towards the Mobile Society, where our mobile devices become the remote control of our daily lives." — Alan Moore, The Glittering Allure of the Mobile Society2008

Peggy Anne Salz uses this quote in her April eContent column about mobile handsets becoming ever more useful as our ubiquitous computing and communications companions. Then she explains the title concept from Mizuko Ito's 2005 Personal, Portable, Pedestrian. In Salz' words:

Ito and her colleagues outline the pivotal importance of the mobile phone based on the fact that it is

  • personal (we customize and personalize mobile devices and consider them an extension of our personal identities),
  • portable (even the Japanese name for mobile, keitai, which roughly translates to "something you carry with you," stresses the relation between the user and the device and not between the technology and its function), and
  • pedestrian (because it is portable it's a perfect fit with life as it happens and with activities that require partial or sporadic attention).
Apr 20, 2009 3:50:00 AM | Self-Organization (personal knowledge management)

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