Comments on: (mobile) Connecting (through music) http://blog.johnbaeyens.com/2006/08/mobile-connecting-through-music/ België en Brazilië in perstpectief. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rudy De Waele http://blog.johnbaeyens.com/2006/08/mobile-connecting-through-music/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Rudy De Waele Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:56:48 +0000 http://blog.johnbaeyens.com/2006/08/mobile-connecting-through-music/#comment-100 Excellent reply, John! The article was asked to be a visionary view on mobile lifestyle, clubbing culture and social media which means the things I decribe in the article are probably close from 5 to 10 years from here before they'll happen on a mass scale. I find the culture we're moving to an odd mix where market demand is that everything will be personalized soon, very self-centered in a way, leading to a crying need for community. The juxtaposition is fascinating. I saw my first mobile video in 1999 in Helsinki and it's still not mass market, on the other side, saying DJ's would be the god's of the nineties in 1987 was laughed away; also, who knew the internet only 10 years ago in 1996? Yes, you and me were there and some others and still it took a couple of years before everything took really off to collapse later, it all comes in circles in different speeds... One thing is sure is that cultures can be very different in adopting technology, we cannot compare Finnish and Brazilian cultures, neither African or Arabian, all cultures have their own habits and lifestyle and most probably it will still stay like that for a while. I tend to refer also to the behaviour of my teenage daughters who use the phone completely different then we do. I'm especially interested to see what's going to happen in 5 years from here, they are the first real generation that grew up with the mobile. They simply cannot imagine I have spend my youth without a mobile, a computer or the internet :-) (btw: they send you many greetings!) But you're right, to get there we need a lot of innovation, thus entrepreneurs with ideas. I just know there are a lot of good ideas out there just now and there is a lot happening on the entrepreneurial side, that's great, but probably never enough. Things move at their own pace, some evolutions go fast, consumer adoption can take ages and sometimes it's the other way around. Current clubland and it's music can use a new creative injection of revolutional change too if you ask me. Please doo keep this blog still up for a couple of years, I'll be checking the post again and be curious to what of all I say in the artcile will be old skool by then and if not, no big deal. Who knows I'll be running a succesfull startup with you over there by then, planting trees in the Amazone :-) BTW: have you tried MyStrands.com ? Cheers, Rudy Excellent reply, John!

The article was asked to be a visionary view on mobile lifestyle, clubbing culture and social media which means the things I decribe in the article are probably close from 5 to 10 years from here before they’ll happen on a mass scale.

I find the culture we’re moving to an odd mix where market demand is that everything will be personalized soon, very self-centered in a way, leading
to a crying need for community. The juxtaposition is fascinating.

I saw my first mobile video in 1999 in Helsinki and it’s still not mass market, on the other side, saying DJ’s would be the god’s of the nineties in 1987 was laughed away; also, who knew the internet only 10 years ago in 1996? Yes, you and me were there and some others and still it took a couple of years before everything took really off to collapse later, it all comes in circles in different speeds…

One thing is sure is that cultures can be very different in adopting technology, we cannot compare Finnish and Brazilian cultures, neither African or Arabian, all cultures have their own habits and lifestyle and most probably it will still stay like that for a while.

I tend to refer also to the behaviour of my teenage daughters who use the phone completely different then we do. I’m especially interested to see what’s going to happen in 5 years from here, they are the first real generation that grew up with the mobile. They simply cannot imagine I have spend my youth without a mobile, a computer or the internet :-) (btw: they send you many greetings!)

But you’re right, to get there we need a lot of innovation, thus entrepreneurs with ideas. I just know there are a lot of good ideas out there just now and there is a lot happening on the entrepreneurial side, that’s great, but probably never enough.

Things move at their own pace, some evolutions go fast, consumer adoption can take ages and sometimes it’s the other way around. Current clubland and it’s music can use a new creative injection of revolutional change too if you ask me.

Please doo keep this blog still up for a couple of years, I’ll be checking the post again and be curious to what of all I say in the artcile will be old skool by then and if not, no big deal. Who knows I’ll be running a succesfull startup with you over there by then, planting trees in the Amazone :-)

BTW: have you tried MyStrands.com ?

Cheers,

Rudy

]]> By: JC Visual Brain http://blog.johnbaeyens.com/2006/08/mobile-connecting-through-music/comment-page-1/#comment-93 JC Visual Brain Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:32:02 +0000 http://blog.johnbaeyens.com/2006/08/mobile-connecting-through-music/#comment-93 J, Joining different technolgy in mobile handsets only reflect the intellectual masturbation and joy of techies productdevvers and marketeers. Sometimes, killing apps make it to the world, boosted by influencials, picked up by the crowd. Above innovation efforts tap into some real-life problems. Although good apps make to the outside, and some joining efforts do help, I still reckon two major prolems (that support your article) 1. they still do not cover my basic problem: I want a credit-card size basic tech instrument that keeps my basic data together. Something that can keep at least half a terrabite, and that is intelligent enough to interpret where I am, connects to my home when at home, to my car, etc... without having to change the tech apps in my direct environment every year. 2. Once you have set up a workable system, a bunch of new and better apps are presented. So, in the end why do the effort to learn it again, organize your life again, pay a lot of money for new tech, again. Should we invent a new job: personal high-tech integration manager that keeps you apps at full speed, updates it regularly... In that case, I don't even wanna know what's behind, which systems does the work, just let me enjoy the result. Tech should facilitate my life, not create an additional workload. (remember our discussion a few years ago ;-) And between us, even in tech, the antiques have some romance... (for the critics, I'm a guy who loves intelligent innovation, i'm not the driver of new high tech but am considered to pick it up before the mlass does) J, Joining different technolgy in mobile handsets only reflect the intellectual masturbation and joy of techies productdevvers and marketeers. Sometimes, killing apps make it to the world, boosted by influencials, picked up by the crowd.
Above innovation efforts tap into some real-life problems. Although good apps make to the outside, and some joining efforts do help, I still reckon two major prolems (that support your article)
1. they still do not cover my basic problem: I want a credit-card size basic tech instrument that keeps my basic data together. Something that can keep at least half a terrabite, and that is intelligent enough to interpret where I am, connects to my home when at home, to my car, etc… without having to change the tech apps in my direct environment every year.
2. Once you have set up a workable system, a bunch of new and better apps are presented. So, in the end why do the effort to learn it again, organize your life again, pay a lot of money for new tech, again. Should we invent a new job: personal high-tech integration manager that keeps you apps at full speed, updates it regularly… In that case, I don’t even wanna know what’s behind, which systems does the work, just let me enjoy the result. Tech should facilitate my life, not create an additional workload. (remember our discussion a few years ago ;-)

And between us, even in tech, the antiques have some romance…
(for the critics, I’m a guy who loves intelligent innovation, i’m not the driver of new high tech but am considered to pick it up before the mlass does)

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