nBlog archive: 2018

Customer is Kin

During the last century, most businesses were following the guidance of Adam Smith (and to lesser extend Karl Marx’s) – it was all about capital, means of production (factories), efficient replication and supply chains. CONTINUE READING

What is a Robot?

For the last 150 or so years, engineers have been fascinated about creating intelligent beings from inanimate, or otherwise crafted matter. CONTINUE READING

True Enterprise Value

Where are we today with spime, the next generation digital twins in manufacturing? CONTINUE READING

Digital Sovereignty

After two days at the European Defence Agency (EDA), it is increasingly clear to me that the Internet as we know it will be splintered, or balkanized into parts under different laws, conventions, censorship and even technology. CONTINUE READING

Digital Dependencies

Recently, the Finnish government authentication service at suomi.fi experienced a moderate Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack, which rendered the service inaccessible for some four hours. CONTINUE READING

Ecommerce Chaos

Last week I wanted to get a new rubber pad for my trustworthy AEG wood sander. CONTINUE READING

Disconnected Cars

Most new cars have some kind of connectivity, ranging from emergency positioning only to full-fledged online entertainment system for all seats. CONTINUE READING

IoT since 2001

Before establishing BaseN in 2001, I was tackling some serious challenges in managing the largest network in Europe. CONTINUE READING

Enter Energy Reality

For the past 12 years, we’ve lived in the countryside seafront aroud 50km from Helsinki. Our property, or a fishing farm as it was called in the early 1900s CONTINUE READING

500.000 and Counting

Last week my Saab reached 500.000 kilometers, still with virtually everything working like it was new. CONTINUE READING

Containers for Real Business

When the first mainframes were deployed in the 1950s, programs were written carefully e.g. in COBOL and FORTRAN, and stored on punch cards and later on magnetic tapes. CONTINUE READING

On The Edge of 5G

Most network builders and operators are now making transition plans from 4G/LTE networks into 5G. Transmission speeds used to be the main driver for painstaking upgrades from 2G to 4G CONTINUE READING

Spime in the Machine

While travelling across the US, I’ve become a regular customer of famous (and successful) American (and British) chains such as Starbucks and Pret-a-Manger. CONTINUE READING

On Technical Leadership

Back in 1993 I was working for Ahlstrom, a global pulp and paper company with some unusual strides into early information technology. CONTINUE READING

Digital Twins, Spimes and Adam Smith

Our this year’s streak at Hannover Messe clearly showed that the industry is preparing for Digital Twins, AI and Big Data. CONTINUE READING

IoT and Spime security. Now.

Last week we updated one our office HP printer-scanners, as its user interface apparently had a few security holes and some browsers refused to talk to it. CONTINUE READING

Of Sovereign Data and Intelligence

For the past 18 years, BaseN has been managing petabytes of confidential customer data, ranging from deep Internet traffic analysis and gigawatt-hours of energy CONTINUE READING

Life, Universe and Spime

Last week we had a thought experiment with my CSO regarding the challenge of describing spime to a new customer. CONTINUE READING

Glass Box v2

As a pilot, I’ve always been interested in the safety equipment in aircrafts, such as Emergency Location Transmitters and flotation devices. CONTINUE READING

Socks Redux

For the past few years, I’ve worn predominantly Tommy Hilfiger black socks, as they have been fitting well to my somewhat large (EU48, US13) feet. CONTINUE READING

Full Stack is hard. Spime Scale is harder.

Nowadays you see the term Full Stack in many marketing materials, cloud provider websites and even developer titles. CONTINUE READING

Spime and The Last Paradigm

From time to time (like during past Christmas holidays) I recap books like Thomas Kuhn’s ‘Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ CONTINUE READING