Technology is running ahead of our abilities to understand and manage. We’re inundated with new tools. But, what induces us to use the new tools?
Last summer, a friend and I were fishing in the mountain lakes of central Oregon. The biggest city, Bend was 40 miles away. Beep … beep … beep from his cell phone was all I heard for three days. My fishing buddy was a consultant who needed to stay on top of his pressing engagements. Aside from scaring off the fish and conflicting with fishing-buddy protocols, this also portended how technology is changing how we live, work, and play.
elecommunications networks have married with computers to make information, communications, and collaboration transparent, seamless, and virtual. We can have an office anywhere. Telecommunications technology has also broken down distances. We don’t have to go to a place to work, work will come to us.