The basics, the history

My name is Linus Ericsson, I study Engineering Physics, Teknisk Fysik, although I have been fiddling around with computers and electronics from when I was about 9 years old. I sometimes wonder how it would be if I got into the physical interaction design course already then...

I won an iPod shuffle yesterday, in a short workshop at Excitera innovation challenge. It was something about P2P-networks between mobiles, and possible uses of them, I suggested that one could use it for transmitting subversive information among dissidents in totalarian states. The problem was not mine, since I lunched with Erik Jennische, who works as some kind of assistant to the policitican Madeleine Sjöstedt in the Stockholm City hall. Erik traveled to Cuba and handed out books about things like economic theory, free speach, democrazy and more, since the government keeps its power through restricting information. The books were passed on 100 times and more!

P2P network on the mobile phones would solve the problem of copying the information (a laser printer does not work on Cuba of mainly logistical reasons). There are still other problems as well. The government probably likes to forbid things with these features.

Technology changes societys. People with power but without technology always fears that.