“Speedbird” has been the callsign for aircraft belonging to BOAC and its various predecessors and descendents since 1939.

To me the Speedbird symbolizes many things: the lost glamour of travel, the high Modernist moment in design and architecture, and above all, a time when Western culture still believed in a future.

Who writes Speedbird?

My name is Adam Greenfield. I’m head of design direction for service and user-interface design at Nokia. (Not only do the opinions and stances expressed here not reflect those of my employer, there’s a reasonable chance that they’re orthogonal to same. So caveat lector and all that.)

I’ve written and consulted pretty widely on issues at the intersection of design, technology and culture, and since 2006 have had the pleasure of co-teaching a class called Urban Computing at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications program with Kevin Slavin of area/code. My first book, Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing, can be purchased from Amazon. (I present on these topics fairly often, and all over the planet; if you’re interested in having me speak at a conference or other event, please contact my representatives at the Leigh Bureau. Thanks!)

I live and work in Helsinki with my wife, Nurri Kim. If you’re really curious about the minute and trivial events of my everyday life, my public Twitter stream is here.

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