Thursday, September 23, 2010
New Tech for Old Guys
I think it is very challenging to get older people in a company to want to change to new technology. I look at former bosses I have had that really hate using a computer. They just think they have never done it that way and the business is running fine, so why change now. It is so hard to try and help the older guys in companies to try and trust younger people sometimes that the advancement in technology will truly help the company grow and be more efficient and effective.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Technology vs. Old School
I have heard it said many times that technology is growing so fast that people will have jobs in areas of work ten years from now that do not exist today. But taking a look at the Internet boom in the '90s and how that fade faded away, will these new technologies and inventions stand the test of time or just be fads as well.
What is not a fad but has had incredible sustainability is just the old school written letter. Why does a letter contain more emotion and gets the point across and usually means more to people when you get one? Is it because it takes more time to write? Well what if it takes me longer to type than to write? What if the letter is horribly written grammatically compared to an email because of spell check? I am just always curious as to what will be the technology that one day will put the Post Office out of business. Are we there with Twitter or the I-pad technology. Thoughts?
What is not a fad but has had incredible sustainability is just the old school written letter. Why does a letter contain more emotion and gets the point across and usually means more to people when you get one? Is it because it takes more time to write? Well what if it takes me longer to type than to write? What if the letter is horribly written grammatically compared to an email because of spell check? I am just always curious as to what will be the technology that one day will put the Post Office out of business. Are we there with Twitter or the I-pad technology. Thoughts?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Tech Jobs Growing
Found this article on yahoo.com today... http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/110586/fastest-growing-jobs
Just like Professor showed us in class how the amount of top jobs are related to IT. Does it come down to that these jobs are in that high demand because of need or because of lack of skilled people in the work force? I think part of the job market has to do with the fact that so many of the baby boomer generation just have no clue on what to do when it comes to IT. I know I can use my dad for example when I talked to him about his companies image portrayed on his website and he responded that no one really uses the Internet so he was not worried about it. WRONG. Some of the older people just do not realize the effect (or affect - always get those mixed up) of how the Internet and technology plays such a huge role in today's society and work place.
Just like Professor showed us in class how the amount of top jobs are related to IT. Does it come down to that these jobs are in that high demand because of need or because of lack of skilled people in the work force? I think part of the job market has to do with the fact that so many of the baby boomer generation just have no clue on what to do when it comes to IT. I know I can use my dad for example when I talked to him about his companies image portrayed on his website and he responded that no one really uses the Internet so he was not worried about it. WRONG. Some of the older people just do not realize the effect (or affect - always get those mixed up) of how the Internet and technology plays such a huge role in today's society and work place.
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