<Progess to what is what I would like to know?>
Don't act so big. Your not so little. Don't miss the points about the strengths of the age. At first, Mcdonalds thought it was in the burger biz when it really was in the fast-food biz.
It is difficult to see where the Information Age is leading primarily because the technologies fueling it are still being developed and at a furious rate. It is difficult also because of the breadth of the impact of information technologies to date. With so many areas of society being affected, many effects are transitory, many are insignificant, some are contradictory and some are even undesirable.
Have you really missed out on the Technological Breakthroughs in Communications? I'm talking about the networking of computers as one of the defining characteristics of the Information age. Have you ever run a business where it was important to send a document overseas in a matter of minutes via Email or hold a video conference across continents? The Technology of the Information Age has become integral in my daily life.
What about the uses of the Internet? Some of the current primary functions supported by the Internet are: e-mail, discussion groups, long-distance computing and file transfers.
The Information Age Preserves, Updates and Disseminates Knowledge: From Manuscripts to Books to Internet books.
The communications medium of networked computers enables the process of preserving, updating and disseminating knowledge to be carried one or two steps further to the immediately available, instant feedback, constantly-updated, "3-dimensional" (non-fiction) book. There are two important aspects to this. The first relates specifically to the updating of knowledge. A well-documented book can do a creditable job of addressing all the knowledge and thought up to the time of its publication, but can't address even the reaction to itself, let alone the thoughts it provokes. Subsequent editions are used to correct this problem, but are rarely published less than a year (more commonly 3-12 years for reference works) after the original. At that point, parts of the first edition are obsolete, but there is no good way to so indicate on a first edition copy.
I could go on and on here but I want to touch briefly on a second point:
<How do we find time for life period in this kind of situation?>
Time is not primarily money. Time is Life. I delegate responsibility. I manage my time, my life, so I can play with my sons, my wife (and friends) and act silly. That's real important to me so I make Time for that. |
