Fascinating report about The Mobile Internet:
“History suggests the mobile Internet has potential to create / destroy more wealth than prior computing cycles based on 10x user multiplier effect (from cycle to cycle, the number of users / units increases tenfold). Regarding pace of change, more users will likely connect to the Internet via mobile devices than desktop PCs within 5 years.”
You don’t have to read between the lines to get that mobile is a *big* thing, and coming fast. Good read.
“The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and re-learn.” — Alvin Toffler [via @jalam1001]
Illiterate may be too strong of a word, but the sentiment is correct. The key talent for people today is no longer to master a trade or a specific skill, but to become adapt at adapting to change. If you can anticipate change and react to it faster than your competitors, it doesn’t just put you a little ahead, it puts you an order of magnitude ahead.
When I started college, they said that 90% of the jobs we would be taking when we graduated 4 years later, hadn’t been invented yet. And you know what? They were right. If change is happening even faster now, what long-held perspectives must you shift to keep from being left in the dust?
“if you want to foster innovation, [let] people slip from under line management and strike out on their own, on projects they care about”
He’s talking about Dan Pink’s video, the surprising truth about what motivates us:
I’ve been reading The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming our Imagination (you’ll have to read it slowly — it’s kinda dense):
“A tendency to overvalue the ends of technology has become one of the most persistent features of these heady times, but so much technology has been piling up for so long that we are now beginning to see how it transforms the way we thing. We are different for using it. This qualitative change can be seen most clearly in the World Wide Web, which grew from a simple, if subtle, idea into a global unification of all human knowledge, and, perhaps, a catalogue of human experience. Confronted with a space of ideas that has grown well beyond the ability of any person to “know” it, we find ourselves navigators in a familiar but impossibly vast sea of facts, figures, and fiction. Every individual who has become a web surfer has changed the way he thinks and the way he uses knowledge. Every business, as it encounters the Web, changes completely.“
[emphasis added]
I was listening to a podcast where they were using modern as a positive. As in: the horse and buggy can get you places, but you can go so much faster in modern cars.
I also tend towards using it as a positive: “modern technology” “modern processes” “modern living” “modern project management” — these all carry very positive connotations in my mind. But a modern thing isn’t always perceived as a good thing to all people – you’ve heard their rallying cry “Tried and True”.
Do you see “modern” as being a bad thing? Why?
Introspective bonus points: what would cause you to change your opinion to favor modern things?
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