The history of media and technology is also the history of different observation tools, scientific models and intellectual schemes.

Largely, it is also the history of failures and misevaluations. At the end of the 19^th century, William Thomson aka Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) suspected that flying machines that are heavier than air were impossible.

It is often said that Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956), chairman of the board at IBM, predicted that the world market could operate with maybe five computer..

It is not an innocent coincidence that some of the most popular keywords today are change and vision. Change is necessary and inevitable, many people say. Vision can refer to the strategic goals of a company, organization, community, person, state, regional area, etc.

The word “vision” also contains a humorous meaning since one dictionary definition of the word is a hallucination experienced while in a religous trance or strongly inibriated.

Times are changing. Yesterday’s truth is not necessa..

A society increasingly dependent on technology, networks and innovation will set new demands on its citizens and contemporaries to update their skills. A gap could exist, for example, between people that use information and communication technologies (ICT) in their professions and free time and people who don’t (digital literacy vs. digital illiteracy).

What is the Future of Work? Regarding this issue I was interviewed by Welcome to Finland magazine some months ago (Summer/2010). It seems clear..