Mobile society, technology, and culture

The paper takes into account three vital categories, namely mobile society, technology, and culture. Our world gets mobile. More and more people carry out their activities on the move; it might be business, entertainment, education or just socializing. Communications become wireless and invisible, and cheaper and cheaper, the distance and location factors get increasingly irrelevant. We are quickly approaching the point beyond which we shall have good reasons to think in terms of mobile society. The purpose of this paper is to investigate certain relationships between new technologies, especially the Internet and mobile technologies, and culture. It seems that technology and culture work in opposite directions. Even a more dramatic diagnosis seems to be legitimate, viz. technology displaces culture. The major message of this discourse is that: One has to vividly oppose to the displacement of culture. The rationale is simple, viz. a decline and atrophy of culture is in many ways an extremely negative phenomenon for democratic society at large, which at the end of the day will also affect the technology itself Towards this end, the MOST Programme (Mobile Open Society through wireless Telecommunications) was started; a short note on its objective is given in the paper.