You are an Digital Collaborator
This couldn't be anymore perfect for me as I have multiple PCs as well as laptops with a 3 monitor setup as well as a 200" projector for my digital media room, it's really quite insane in there. I leave there and go to an office with 2 laptops one with a 3g data account for a second selling access port for 4-5 different selling locations on the web, it basically gets the word out for our merchandise faster. I use a droid cell phone for my social networking as well as on the go gaming, and I also use the ebay listing tool for on the spot picture/selling. Basically there is no area I am not one with the internet on, you can call me Neo if you'd like.The Article was a very informative piece. Actually seeing the statistics of the nation right in front of my face is rather shocking. All these things that I take for granted are not even used by so many people I would assume could not live without them. The day my father picked up an Iphone was the day I started to realize, this movement is becoming rampant. The internet, constant connection to infinite knowledge as well as instant communication is becoming so needed/demanded that the direction of the world is soon to be run through mobile devices. Business as we know it is about to lose face to face contact on the lower tear levels. Average dealers will be selling merchandise with nothing but a name and an address. Paypal will be controlling a massive amount of the worlds finances, off of a 3% commission per transaction. It's technically becoming the world bank via internet sales. It's actually very amazing to see this type of transformation as well as wealth redistribution happening right in front of my face. I am just glad that I have been involved with it for the amount of time that I have.
I agree so many things about technology especially by the generation that is very tech savy is taken for granted. I to like the idea of my parents getting more involved with technolgy and be somewhat comfortable.
ReplyDeleteHi "Neo", as you said, technology is moving the market for sales and home shopping. We most certainly are on the hot track to losing face to face sales. Are you at all concerned about the technology rumors of implanted chips into our bodies for the use of credit cards, personal information, locating devices and such? I am not so thrilled with this rumor being told.
ReplyDeleteTechnology is really starting to control every aspect of our lives from shopping to communication. I have to admit that i prefer to shop online rather than go to a store. I can shop at my own pace and shop while im sitting on the couch in my pjs and slippers! And off of what Lauren said... Locating devices are already a part of our lives! On facebook it is so easy to know exactly where people are if they "check in". Also, there is an app that can pinpoint the exact locations of your friends who also have that app....scary right? Kind of makes it hard to lie to people about where you are
ReplyDeleteYour post made me feel like my identity as an Ambivalent Networker was even more fitting. You are more tech savvy than me...for sure! I think it is sad to think about face to face business becoming somewhat obsolete, however, facts are facts. I liked your post.
ReplyDeleteNeo, I too think it is amazing to see the Internet growing up and being a part of it. I remember many, many, many years ago a friend and I were showing his wife the internet and how cool it was to type in a company.com name and pull up their web page. She asked us "What if you're not sure of what you looking for? How do you find it?" That should have been my big clue to start my own Yahoo or Google, but instead I answered "You just know". Back then my friend and I knew it was going to be big, that's why we were showing her. But we didn't realize it was going to be gargantuan.
ReplyDeleteGiven the statistics from the study, do you think that your vision for the future will be here soon? It seems that we're all pretty taken aback by the percentage of individuals in the study who are indifferent to the digital world or completely detached from it. Would you say that those who are ignorant to the impending change will have to submit to it or will they keep it from happening as soon you might think?
ReplyDeleteI hang out with a lot of people who are also very into technology (obviously), but then all I have to do is look around me at work and remember that there are still many, many people who just don't care about technology as much as I do. There are plenty of professors at the university even who only check their email when they are on campus.
ReplyDeleteI think when you are a hard core tech user, like us digital collaborators, it is very easy to forget that we are still the minority.
But as generations change, well, who knows. My nephew turns 1 in March--what will his generation be like, I wonder?
I agree technology is taking over the world. It's getting to the point were people can't live or breath with out them. Now when older people go and upgrade their phone, there giving them these phones that they have no understanding about and later it becomes their little toy.Then there are some who doesn't care about technology at all and sometime wishes it never existed.
ReplyDeleteWow I would have never guessed this many people would comment on D-Wizzle's blog!
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of you but I can't however agree with people who are "Scared" of technology... It's here to help us, a computer though capable of AI, is still in need of a script to run the AI... This script would be created by us.. in-so-facto... We are like O'doyal... We rule... (I know I know... Billy Madison is so 2001 huh)
I look at it like this... I wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for ebay and other sales outlets online... it's all basically a MASSIVE social network... they all just have different avenues.. some sales... some hooking up... some for trolls... there is something for everyone on the internet... thats why it's so awesome!!
Oh yeah then there is youtube... LOL
ReplyDeletedon't get me started on youtube!
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