[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=jficquette][quote=patb]
6. Mobile phones, and other devices are now becoming all sorts of tools and multiple use devices. Social networking is growing faster than anything anyone can imagine. The growth rates are beyond comprehension. This is where everything in the world is going from ordering food or reserving a car on Zip Car, to reading the news or anything. If you are over 30 you can’t grasp what is happening and how fast.
Thats crap. And as none of it’s monetized, what good is it?[/quote]
I think its in the context of fundamental changes in how our society uses the new tools available and its impact on how our economy works.
John[/quote]
I’m with Pat on this one. If I see one more of my twenty-something engineers stopping on a project to respond to a tweet or an IM, I AM going to shoot them.
As far as what I do (specialized engineering), none of those technologies/applications represents any sort of “fundamental changes”. They don’t carry data of any significant size, they don’t contribute to my bottom line in terms of productivity and they’re mainly time wasters.
I could give a rat’s ass for following around after Chad Ochocinco or Ashton Kutcher via Twitter.[/quote]
Right now it is in its toy stage. About where the Internet was in the early 90’s when AOL was king or even when Prodigy around. Its the ability of groups of people to be tied together instantly that will drive the changes. No one knows where its going but it will keep morphing into more and more significant expressions.
