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Working is so passé. Don’t you think? I mean, how do people get anything done when you have blogs, IM (instant messaging), Tweeter, Facebook, Skype and a whole load of other social networking Internet activities? Not to mention Second Life. Is work being replaced by communication? And how hard it is to concentrate on work when you are constantly buzzed, tweeted and emailed? Who can resist the temptation of not answering an IM or posting a quick reply to an interesting blog article?
I’m not into since fiction, the last book of the kind that I read was in my teens. But my vision for the future is borderline Terminator: a world where machines do everything on voice command, while people do nothing but talk. However, in my version of tomorrow the machines will be nice, obedient and respectful. They would bow to our ability to invent something new with every sentence we utter. They would be grateful to carry our messages from one end of the world to the other in seconds. They would feed, clothe and cure us, educate and amuse us without asking for anything back, except the privilege to witness our words.
In this world, I would have time. To spend with my family, to catch up with friends, to write the stories that live inside my head, the do more then one blog post a month, to make plans and strategies. Is there a dark side to this utopia? Most likely, but I don’t want to think about it. How about you?
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Interesting point. And so true. I have a problem with ignoring all the interesting stuff I get on gmail and twitter, leading me off into all sorts of tangents, all sorts of interesting reports, all of which are so much more interesting than doing the work. In fact, writing this reply is a classic example, I sat down to write an article on drugs for the EU Observer and what am I doing? Writing this. I guess the answer is old fashioned discipline that should have been whipped into me as a boy — but wasnt — plus the kind of self discipline that every self employed persion, and artist or writer, has to have if they are to achieve anything. But this issue of work being talk is an interesting one and having just spent an incredibly boring morning at a NATO conference on Cyber Security (great subject, killed stone dead by the Romanian ability to murder good subjects and „talk the hind leg off a donkey„ as my Granny would say. But seriously, Romanians have a major problem in summarising and when they give a speech they seem unable to get to, or stick to, the point. On that day there were over 200 overpaid public servants sitting in the Hilton listening to other public servants talk about nothing. In fact they were all probably thinking about what was for lunch as the Hilton has one of the best kitchens in Bucharest. If I„m honest, that was one of the reasons I went to the event, but it was so overwhelmingly dull that I couldnt make it past the coffee break.
That is just one example of what goes on in the name of PR, an industry that seems to be totally built on talking. Enough of this chatter. I have work to do