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Petri Launiainen

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Petri Launiainen has spent over thirty years dealing with computers and mobile communications, gaining great insight into both of these incredible technological revolutions, especially while working as a VP at Nokia and as a CTO of Nokia's Brazilian R&D center.

Over the years he had noticed that the effects on society caused by these incredible inventions turned out to be much larger than is generally recognized, so he decided to collect a comprehensive timeline of these events into "A Brief History of Everything Wireless: How Invisible Waves Have Changed the World".

Outside of computers and wireless communications his other interest areas are aviation, scuba diving and space exploration: he's got a Private Pilot License with Instrument Ratin ...more

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Petri Launiainen If you have a story, do not expect to write it from beginning to end. Start from the part that feels easiest, the rest will come.

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Petri Launiainen You don't... The inspiration just comes when it comes.

There were weeks when I got maybe a paragraph or two or one editing round of a single chapter …moreYou don't... The inspiration just comes when it comes.

There were weeks when I got maybe a paragraph or two or one editing round of a single chapter in, and then I had days when I created a complete chapter in one go.

You either get into a zone or not. I could not force myself to it, so I did not even try.(less)

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Today is one of the dreaded days for the Flat Earthers, as the hard reality is that the light pattern that their puny 50 km diameter Sun is unequivocally known to create on their pizza-pie Earth today is depicted in the adjoining picture: exactly half of the pizza is lit, ...

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