The Digital Age
I watched a TED video this morning. Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of Wine Library TV, reminded me once again that everything we do today is digitally recorded. Our children and grand-children are going to have access to so much about our lives. When I think about what I know about my great grand-parents, I know their names and I know the few stories I have time to hear from my grandparents. But my children are going to have access to what I said on twitter even today, March 13th, 2010. They will be able to see that I missed the last 3 episodes of 24 because hulu broadcasts that.
Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, spoke at an EO event this past week at the James J Hill library on the topic of Social Media. He also stressed the importance and power of the web. As technology evolution continues to accelerate, more and more of what we do is going to be digitally recorded and archived. In the near future, life will be video-recorded and broadcasted everywhere we go (as it already can be). What does this mean in the privacy debates, speed of life issues, the ADD surge in young people? I don’t know. But technology is quickly and gracefully macro-evolving the way life works.
I am very interested to know your thoughts on whether these things concern you, excite you, and what you plan to do about this…
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Scott Scanlon
It is an interesting concept. We learn so much from history when we are able to recover ancient manuscripts, just imagine someone 1000 years from now and if all these conversations and interactions do survive. It wont be that hard to piece together what we were like or who we are… kind of a game changer.