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oday, when technology, digital devices and the Internet cover all areas of life, it’s difficult to imagine what everyday life, work and industry used to be like before mobile technology. Of all lines of business, ICT is perhaps the fastest changing and most sensitive – a new innovation may change the whole field in one fell swoop, and you can never be sure what the world of technology will look like a year from now. Another special characteristic of the ICT field is that the person revolutionising it and shaking it up can be almost anyone, regardless of the size or public recognition of their enterprise, as long as their idea and its execution are good. Imagine the doors this opens! One by one the telephone, radio, television, computers, information networks, mobile devices, software and applications have become more and more popular in Finland and the rest of the world. In Turku and the surrounding region, the endless possibilities offered by technology have inspired inventors to work on all sorts of devices and applications. At the end of the day, behind quite a few important development steps and inventions, there’s a McGyver -type person or a group of McGyvers from Southwest Finland.
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