The internet is truly and unequivocally a marvellous thing as tonight I have discovered, for the first time, that I can watch Charlie and Lola whenever and wherever I want. With a 3G card in my laptop, and soon in the Mac as well, I might even start turning up at committee meetings. Just don't expect me to listen!
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Although this has nothing to do with Charlie and Lola, I wanted to give you my thoughts and latest experiences on Disruptive Technology at its best....
Last week I saw Bob Geldof speak at the B2B Exhibition at GMEX. He talked about attending a meeting with the staff in one of his Entertainment companies and they were all exhausted through tending to emails after midnight and before the crack of dawn. As a result, Bob thought that the true work of the organisation was being neglected. His 'fix' was to make an email policy whereby the staff could email for 1 hour a day, at 1pm and their 'out of office' emails indicated that senders woud only receive a reply after 24 hours (after 1pm the following day!). I liked this policy as it drives me to distraction that email can take up the days, weeks and years of our lives! Is it a necessary disruption or not?
Secondly, I watched Planet Earth last week and witnessed technology at its best! Although, in recent years it may have been thought that building a camouflagued den and putting a camera operator in there to film Birds of Paradise would be disruptive and intrusive to nature, the sensitive and current way that this digital technology is used is not remotely disruptive and provides breathtaking footage. The camera man apparently had spent 300+ hours waiting to film the intriguing courtship dances of these birds, while singing 'My Bird of Paradise' over and over in his head....but how grateful we are...digital technology provides us with so much that we might never experience.
Finally, I was sat drinking my capuccino at a coffee house earlier this week and in walked a new father, mother and baby (in a posh push chair which they parked near the door.) The mother went to the counter to order and then the father who had been sat with the child in the push chair decided he wanted something further so he went up to his partner at the counter, leaving the baby in the push chair near the door but making sure that he had his laptop bag securely in his hand...that wasn't going to be let out if his sight! As they would say in the US, 'go figure!' If that isn't technology at its most disruptive, I don't know what is!!!
Have you considered that maybe the said Dad didn't want the said baby to log on to the laptop?
Absolutely Good!!!!!
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