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2001: Finland - MOBILE PHONE Capital of the World? | The Future Just Happened | BBC Archive
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5:50Now Playing"We are all becoming, in some small way, Finnish."
In The Future Just Happened, American author Michael Lewis considers how the internet is giving power to outsiders.
In this clip, he heads to Finland, the home of Nokia, to try to find out why Finnish culture has so thoroughly embraced the mobile phone.
He speaks to a group of Finnish teenagers, all of whom have a mobile phone (all but one a Nokia), and asks how they feel about Finland being at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution. He then visits Nokia, where Design Manager Anna Valtonen tells him what she can about the future of mobile phones.
Clip taken from The Future Just Happened, originally broadcast on BBC , 12 August, 2001.
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