NOKIA

Nokia for generation X equals phone.

By the way, may I say that I thought I was a boomer and instead my husband pointed out that we are not?

What generation are you from?

We are of the generation that grew up with the grey phones, with the dial wheel to dial the number and the short wire, attached to a socket somewhere impractical in the house.

We are of the generation that looked for tokens to call from phone boxes.

We are of the generation that when leaving the house went into a ‘no-go’ because geo-localisation was the stuff of science fiction movies.

Then came Nokia.

Actually Nokia is a Finnish city, whose name comes from the Nokianvirta river. 

Luisella you come in whenever you want 🙂

Thanks to its strategic location on the river, Nokia started to create products from the late 19th century: paper, boots televisions gas masks … up to the famous Mobira Cityman. 

1987

The same year as The Joshua Three, Dirty Dancing, the year when GIFs and The Simpsons were born, but above all the year when Ronald Reagan and Michail Gorbačëv signed the INF Treaty on nuclear missiles. 

During the next 20 years, Nokia mobile telephony evolved very fastly: in 1991, the first GSM call was made and by 1998, the vast majority of mobile phones in Europe were manufactured by the Finnish company.

Until 2007, the year of the first iPhone: the smartphone era was born, but Nokia, perhaps on the strength of its Nokia 1100, the best-selling mobile phone ever, did not understand the importance of innovating immediately.

In 2008, the Android operating system with HTC Dream dealt the second blow.

This was followed by top management reorganisations and belated agreements to try and limit losses, but the giant’s feet are now made of clay.

Have you had a Nokia?

This is a small representation:

and then there’s it: we call it the ‘muccino’ from the much dialect word which is a bit the opposite of the English meaning, in fact it means butt.

We call him little, but he is big: he has been my alarm clock for I don’t even remember how many years, but that’s a long time, and he has never missed a beat.

Muccino testifies day after day to the quality and validity of a well-made, practically indestructible product, so the question is: it’s not enough to be good, you have to be able to ride time.

Never consider yourself ‘arrived.’

Never stop improving.

Be a visionary?

Also.

Even the Accademia della Crusca has reconsidered the negative meaning of the term. 

Federico Fellini said that the only true realist is the visionary.

In your opinion?

Is reality already a vision of the future?

However, the today we are living does not correspond to the idea of the future that most commonly populated the general imagination.

How many and which movies or books can we cite? 

I would say that unfortunately we have to revise our estimates, in the negative, and by quite a lot too.

Am I wrong?

Can you tell me something optimistic?