Several opinion-makers trying to influence President-Elect Obama’s technology policies thorough blogs. Part of the intent, no doubt, is to simply use a historic election and a public focal point to aid mass communication. But it does seem like these bloggers seem to be nurturing long-shot hopes that they’ll actually be heard. Here are three examples:
The easiest way to predict the future, as Alan Kay said, is to invent it. Some friends of mine, over at a stealth design/innovation startup called WilsonCoLab, decided to start a site dedicated exclusively to this task at www.cloudworker.org, which beta-launched today with a neat contest (seriously flattering to have a word you coined taken this seriously!). Cool logo, eh?
At least, you are according to the most popular entry in a contest sponsored by Plantronics to find a term to replace the so-20th century “telecommuter.” According to a survey also conducted by the vendor, there are a lot of us cloudworkers out there–more than half of respondents said they work from home at least one day a week–and half of them say they are more productive when they do so. Also, 36% of knowledge workers say they’re traveling less, and 40% are spending more time in teleconferences (cloudconferences?).
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Dec 2nd, 2008 |
