Heathrow is fogbound, so I am at Macclesfield station with a ticket to West Drayton and back. It is dark. The station and train are almost deserted. Only the madmen are left.
Happy new year, electronic communication. Happy new year to video and telephone, to mobile and email, instant messaging and txt. There has to be another way.
Next year, please, I travel with my girls to sunny destinations. There is no hour so ungodly that it cannot be punctured by the chatter of small girls. Next year, please, I will no longer be the lonely sod in the dark… ("a solitary mister")
Please.
Happy new year, all. This e-stuff is marvellous. This fossil-stuff, fossil-travel, is killing us.
Happy new year, and a toast to the Information Age!
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Happy New Year, Peter, and before that, have a Merry Christmas, too.
Here's to a 2007 in which you can escape busy-ness and get down to business :-)
just stipulate viva's by iChat next year ;)
Glad to see your 3g card is not fog bound...now that would be terrible (and even lonelier!)
Talking of which, check out Consumer technologies are invading corporate computing.
Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you all.
(Blimey, it took me several goes to figure out how to do the link above properly!)
look 4ward to working with you mr trevor in 2007
i'll pass that link to mbs folk
I think there must be a Phd or Doctorate in some description around "Social Computing and New Work Patterns." Maybe Action Research to work out the models and frameworks taht suit people. i.e. when email/msg/twitter/txt ... when video ... when and what role the office? (is it just a coffee shop?) What role home? And then, how are decisions made? What role the committee?. If we focus on academia or a similar knowledge-environment, it might start to be tractable.
happy new year to you
The line of research you suggest, Peter, is critical.
I am in the midst of preparing my philosophy essay in which I make one or two bold claims. They may well be refuted, but I think the management sciences, information system theory, and even the sciences and academia themselves are on the verge of a paradigm change. Take academia – publishing is now only a click away. We no longer the committee or the revered barriers to entry to filter our thoughts and ideas. We are all creative thinkers and we all have a voice. Many will concern themselves with standards. How do we assess the method and results of the research? I would suggest the level of interest and readership around any one idea would be proof of any concept, not to mention the speed of feedback and positive or negative impressions made upon it.
This really is time to dismantle our social constructions of reality.
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