Mobile in the sense of “not sat in front of my laptop”. Currently waiting for 52 pages of pure strategic thought to print. On a colour printer, so I may be here for some time…
Archive for 9 May 2003
Actually, I’ve changed my mind. I don’t understand trackback.
Eeek – that was a bit unnerving. I’m half-expecting to hear a distant bang, and a cry of “oi – whatthe*%$@#dyathingyordoing?!?!”
That’s the trouble with blogging – it’s like learning to juggle in public in your underwear.
VentureBlog: There’s Plenty of Room in the Future pointing out that whatever technology you care to consider,it’s getting a) smaller b) faster and c) cheaper.
Which means that there are entire categories of activity possible today that simply weren’t possible yesterday. It fits nicely with the concept of inertia that I spend most of yesterday wondering about (revision, comes in useful sometimes). Having invested in yesterday’s technology because that was state of the art, today you’re out of date – but the inertia of the organisation means that grabbing the advantages that the new tech offers is difficult to do relative to someone who misses the previous stage out altogether. Why would you rollout a wired network if wifi is available, for example?
The possibilities it mentions are interesting enough, but it strikes me that they’re simply the product of an existing tech x existing trend x Moore’s law calculation. The really interesting outcomes tend to be the ones that noone imagined – how many of us could have looked at the web in 1995 and said “blogs”??
(Oh, and my first attempt at a trackback, too. Crosses fingers and hopes that it doesn’t break the other end.)
longthinstringthing
I know what it means.
