If we can trust everything we’ve ever been told in movies, and I’m pretty sure we can, this next decade should be abundant with mind-bending technology. Back to the Future Part II taught us that flying cars that run on garbage could be here as soon as 2015 and it looks as though Richard Branson will ensure space travel is available well.. to those of us willing to part with a few hundred thousand dollars per journey. Yes, the future is here and now that we’ve traded in our pocket calculators for iPhones, our floppy disks for flash memory and our thesauruses for Google.. what will the modern office look like in the decade to come, and, how will our work lives and interactions change as a result?
Wow! What a phenomenal year it has been. I’d like to thank our readers for your support of the Last Known Issue and of I Know IT in 2010. Many of you have written to me (very thoughtfully I might add) to provide feedback about the newsletter and about our team and that has been a huge motivator. Thank you!
So what’s in store for 2011? Analysts suggest that technology is moving at such a rate now that we’re about to see yet another explosion – or revolution if you will – of new technology surpassing what already seems like a ‘futuristic’ time in technology.
Back on earth though, this is really good news and I’d like to dedicate this weeks Last Known Issue to 3 critical things you could do in your business today, but will be forgiven if you take a few days off over Christmas and get stuck into it next year:
WikiSticks Controversial site Wikileaks may have upset Governments and their loose-tongued diplomats but there is very little that can be done to stop the leaks now. Despite founder Julian Assange’s legal problems, the sites history is now glued permanently online by supporting “mirror” sites that duplicate the Wikileaks content all over the world. Despite financial institutions withdrawing their support for Wikileaks and major online hosts vowing to remove all content – the very nature of the Internet and those who support Assange [...]
Our beloved “coathanger” – the Sydney Harbour Bridge was and still is one of the most significant investments ever made in Australia’s infrastructure. The long awaited and much debated bridge finally opened in 1932 linking the CBD to the North Shore connecting Sydneysiders together.
Since then, the bridge has attracted tourists from all over the world, is used by corporations to generate new business in Australia and continues to bring opportunities to our shores (think: Oprah’s big O which I’ll cover further down in this article).
