In any given day our business and personal task include hundreds of technological exchanges which we use to increase our reach, gather new information, improve our learning, expand relations and try to enrich those we already have relations with, both on and off line. In the midst of all this activity we also try to insure our family’s economic future. I am blessed to be able to spend full time working in the emerging Relationship Economy yet at times I feel a little overwhelmed. My working day includes reading and participating in dozens of forums and blogs, supporting numerous networks, researching emerging trends, conversing with market makers and industry leaders from different market segments as well as a host of front line users of numerous technological mediums. My daily technological interactions include dependence on: two cell phones, a blackberry, a Macintosh and a Windows based computer, a GPS navigation system with XM Satellite integrated into my automobiles interface, numerous on-line tools including technocrati, stumbleupon, google, web mail, Word Press, Yahoo Forums, Linkedin, Facebook and a host of other networking sites, Feedblitz, Wikipedia, Wikispace, Mashable, Plaxo, MyBlogLog, Blog Carnival, Numerous Widgets, Digital Cable TV and numerous other technology things, Whew, I am technologically overload and it is stealing my time! What about you?
The accelerating expansion of knowledge and technology simultaneously is pushing up the demand curve while pushing down the supply curve of time. When technology explodes goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful and subsequently overloading one’s ability to assimilate. The only factor which is becoming scare is our time and attention. Since psychology has a label for everything I will label this “TADD”, Technological Attention Deficit Disorder!
Daily we are bombarded with new functions and features which are aimed at facilitating faster, more meaningful reach, proposed new efficiency and a host of other value propositions. However, for those of us are involved and using all of this technology the one thing that needs to happen, and will, is integrative technological breakthroughs that enable us to better manage our time through one interface by segment of use. Once this happens then we will see the creation of a new economy that enables individuals to better balance their time and use it wisely for whatever personal and professional aim. Until then a few are bearing the burden that comes with learning new technology but once lifted the old burden will become the value we can pass on to the masses so collectively we can gain more time to create more value.
The bulk of the population has no idea how fast things are changing, including our relationships.
What say you? Need more time?
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About Jay: Jay Deragon’s professional career includes providing strategic management consulting services to Fortune 500 companies as well as local small businesses. He has consulted with numerous industries spanning over 25 years of professional experience globally. His current professional endeavors are all centric to the disruptive nature of the social web. He writes at Relationship Economy and provides social media strategic services to businesses large and small. Jay Deragon is an avid student of the emerging landscape of all things social and the subsequent impact on business dynamics. Since 2004 Mr. Deragon has been actively studying, sharing and learning how business as unusual is changing business methods, models and relationships. Life is a journey and the experiences along the way provides learning that furthers the experiences if we know how and what to learn. for more info go here http://www.relationship-economy.com/?page_id=2 |
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I agree – TADD all the way. I’m thinking of going retro.
I’ll test my plan by walking the mile from my house down a dirt road to the city square this afternoon and sitting down in the chair outside the coffee shop, where I’ll access the wifi on my phone/ppc and blog my encounters with netizens who stop by just to chat (if I have time between answering my phone-text messages from my kids, my Facebook and MySpace to phone-text messages from my students, calls from my relatives in thirteen states and my emails from the folks who actually help me get paid).
Or maybe I could leave the technology at the house and walk to the ice cream shoppe . . .
Love your response! If you go to the ice cream shop you’ll still be thinking about all you have to do when you get back and wondering who responded to your latest missles of information. In the meantime the walk may help reduce the calroies you took in from the ice cream so you can then go “sit” in front of your computer for many more hours
Last night I helped man a booth at a good old fashioned small town bazaar Cabbage Roll 07. I left the devices locked up, even the cell phone. I spent 6 hours just with people in person.
Except for the time I sleep each night that is the longest I have done that in I can’t even remember how long. It was great to not have my attention diverted by the sound of an incoming email, beep of a text message or ring of the phone.
By your laundry list of devices you’re armed to the teeth and I’m not far behind you. But once in a while it’s nice to take the respirator off to see if we can’t breathe on our own.
Regards ~ Karla
How we interact with people in our networks is changing, and you are right, most people have no idea how these changes effect our society. There is now so much information and so many people competing for our attention, that it would make our grandparents heads spin.
In the midst of all this, real friendships remain the same. You still need to get to know other people at a “soul” level. While I believe relationships are what matter, it is finding how to mix new technologies with plain human nature…..this is where the answers are.
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