Mr. McDaniel e-mailed us this popular set of things about the way communication is now at the speed of the thought. His copy said 2004 and since that time there has been great technological advances so here is the updated 2012 version with my modifications.
Communicating at the Speed of
thought: Technology and Communications for Business Success
You know you're living in 2012 when....
1. You accidentally enter your Blackberry password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. Hell, you haven't played solitaire in years. Its now about Bejeweled and Angry Birds.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3. Better yet you have all of them on Blackberry Messenger so you send them a ping saving you money!
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you and then tweet at them to say you just e-mailed them.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is
that they don't have e-mail addresses, Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts and are not on LinkedIn.
6. You go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone
in a business manner and then tweet about how you did it!
7. You don't have a landline and then proceed to distinguish which of the phones is the company phones from your personal phone as they are the same model but one has free minutes thanks to the company.
8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three
different companies all of which have Facebook Pages, Twitter accounts and believe that social media is the bomb!
10. You learn about your redundancy on your Facebook Newsfeed from On The Ground News Reports. .
11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job because she doesn't have the slightest clue how to retweet that funny joke!
12. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to
see if anyone is home. Then you proceed to Facebook message the kids to say that there is pizza in the fridge and proceed to google where is the nearest Japanese restaurant which serves sushi is located because you are in the mood.
13. Every commercial on television has a website, Facebook and Twitter account at the bottom of
the screen.
14. Leaving the house without your Blackberry or I Phone , which you didn't
have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for tremendous panic
and you will run faster than Usain Bolt to go and get it.
15. You get up in the morning and go online to see who mentioned you on Twitter before getting your
coffee.
16. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
17. You're reading this and nodding and laughing. Then you proceed to put it in a note on Facebook and then tweet it to you best friend.
18. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward
this message via Blackberry Messenger.
19. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
20. You actually scrolled back up to check that! there wasn't a #9
on this list.
AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.
Go on, forward this to your friends ....you know you want to!
While the content may have change it is interesting to note that the consequences do remain very similar.
For the positives it still allows
* time saving - as it is all done electronically without much manual effort
* cost saving - Technology has driven down the price of doing business including savings from going green and printing less.
* prices fall with
use - In 2004 laptops were still new, bulky and expensive. Now they are relatively cheaper and have become even replaceable with new technology such as smart phones and tablets.
* Telecommuting
(e-mail, virtual office) - There continues to be development in technologies to aid in telecommuting. These include programs such as Skype, Oovoo and even an entire virtual office package by Cisco Systems.
* removes drudgery
of dull repetitive tasks - Hey you can sneak in a game of angry Birds. Just kidding but the old manual way made things a bit monotonous. With the advent of the internet, work has become a little bit more exciting.
Mr. Mc Daniel's presentation does also give an extreme list of negatives (see below) which are now heightened in 2012. It is however important to note that as they have been identified, there should be a greater awareness and a move to safeguard one's self against them.
Negatives are:
* increased stress
by greater expectations
* high price of
entry
* steep learning
curve
* systemic errors
hard to catch, multiplies pain
* temptation to
waste because of lower unit costs,ease of re-run
* impersonal - risk
* identity theft
* greater access to
inappropriate content
* content not
regulated
* planned
obsolescence
* dulls the
senses/initiative, promotes procrastination
* plagiarism hard
to detect - severely
* compromises
intellectual property.
You really live in 2012 when your assignment for a class has to be a blog and the teacher uses a tweetorial to teach.
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