From Silicon Valley to Stockholm: hunting for unicorns
Confession time: When I was a kid, I was really into unicorns. I was into fantasy overall, but unicorns had a special place in my awkward pre-teen heart. I didn’t imagine that, years later, I would be...
View ArticleThe book that wanted to be published
You’ve never heard of the author before, and the cover looks like it was drawn someone who flunked out of art school, but it’s the number one book on the Amazon Best Seller list, even outselling Harper...
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Out of my dreams, and into my connected car
When you’re a kid, I think it’s only natural to have visions of the future. Lots of kids were excited about rocket packs, or teleportation or food replicators. When I was a kid, I wanted a...
View ArticleFar above the world – David Bowie, Networked Society visionary
I woke up on Monday morning to possibly the worst text message of all time from my husband: “Avoid looking at the news today. I love you.” Of course, the first thing I did was check the news. And there...
View ArticlePolitics trumps love – Feeling the “bern” this Valentine’s Day
There’s really not many things as surreal as being an American abroad during election season. You are surrounded constantly by people who are more or less amused by the political theater in your...
View ArticleCars, helicopters and wine—oh my!
When people ask me for how many years I have been going to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I usually respond “too many.” But that’s just me trying to be cool; I actually love getting geeky in the...
View ArticleWhen the telephone lines darkened the sun in Stockholm
Editor’s note: Editor’s note: As Ericsson celebrates 140 years of innovation, let’s take a look back to how it all began, when a pioneering technology company from Stockholm began to connect the world....
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How can we empower the Networked Society if we don’t consider half of it?
I’ve always been a girl drawn to the “techier” side of life. As a kid, I didn’t go to tennis or sleepaway camp—I went to computer camp, and learned how to write basic code, way back in the late ’80s. I...
View ArticleDeath to the dead zone
I didn’t know it at the time, but I grew up in a dead zone. During my childhood years, Wi-Fi (let alone household Wi-Fi) was not a major technology; these were even the days before every pre-teen had a...
View Article5G & soccer: A perfect match?
I grew up in a part of New York that was soccer-crazy. It was right around the time that the US women’s team won the World Cup and most of the other girls in my class had Mia Hamm as a personal hero....
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