23 Quotes by Jan Chipchase

The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.

Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.

Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It's like a fingerprint.

Even if you don't state your ethnic background anywhere on LinkedIn or whether you are married with children, a scan of your photos and other people's photos featuring you will make it far easier to deduce.

As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.

At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.