The
ever-accelerating adoption of mobile technology can only lead one to realise
this apparent fact; our civilization at large is fast venturing into a
pseudo-digital era. Fast as it may be though, it is also conspicuous that at
the rate we’re adopting all this mobile technology, it’ll be a good while
before we reach the “bio-technical” reality imposed on our thoughts by your
common tech fantasy movies.
Nevertheless,
I don’t think that’s the altitude we are plotting to reach by our adoption of
technology as of yet which, in itself, is passively overlooking the significance
of “green” technology (another topic for another day). Which brings about a few
short philosophical questions (so to speak); are we employing all current
mobile technology fast enough? What is hindering our “shift” (as I like to call
it, rather than “change”) to a completely digitally-aware reality?
Naturally,
utilisation of new mobile technology starts at enterprise-level, meaning they
(the enterprises) are indirectly responsible of what gets the spotlight and
what doesn’t, which then is gradually inculcated to the general public. As
such, I’ll be delving into the business side of mobile technology.
(Note: I will leave these points quite vague)
The choices
of individual members of the workforce can easily be blamed as the culprit that
is overshadowing the “shift” of a sole, integrated, centralised bionetwork
which, I believe, is the genesis for all change at a technological level. Let’s
face it, this single bionetwork thing is proven fruitful at offices; though
limited, they use an operating system and its office automation tools that
works best with their designated software/hardware at the best
functionality/price ratio and is guaranteed to be future proof. This mindset,
it would seem, is yet to extend to the mobile sphere. This is largely to do
with the lack of need of such an intersection methinks, of course, I’m not
talking about executive level personnel here. On exactly that note, I think
we’re already falling behind schedule and at the same time downplaying the
efforts of some magnificent mobile technology manufactures and some other
brilliant mobile services (of course I’m not going to elaborate on that point)
That sort
of makes one wonder what would happen if we created that need; what would
happen if some enterprise with respectable history for technological innovation
were to step forth and set a new bare minimum that high (and sensible). Of
course, simply creating the need without considering the organisational impact
and some (moral) feasibility this kind of change would bring, is futile.
Yes, I
foresee a fairly considerable number of benefits this “shift” would bring such
as a single point of reception/administration which can possibly be a new
sector by itself (think the movie Matrix), ease of future training (everything
would be done in iteration format meaning deployment of new skills and keeping
up with future changes would be as easy as adding a piece of a puzzle),
complete elimination of fragmentation on both the hardware and software front,
a singular cloud (processing, provisioning, synchronizing) etc. On the other
hand, I think the initial experiment will only be benefitting the highly
qualified as this would be an exercise to get right the first time if it is to
transform any kind of higher level infrastructure, meaning selecting the best
possible candidates for the job and succumbing to no political charity laws. I
also fear the overhaul itself would almost lead to the extinction of the lower
qualified human workforce. But that’s the reasoning of a fool, an intelligent
person thinks like this; it would enforce better skills training on the least
qualified, and in the process separate the sheep from the goat (in terms of what
IT skills are more sustainable than others).
Back to
those questions; are we employing all current mobile technology fast enough?
What is hindering our “shift” (as I like to call it, rather than “change”) to a
completely digitally-aware reality? No, we’re not adopting all current mobile
technology fast enough and it is our freedom of choice (and lack of education)
that is hindering our shift to a more digitally-aware reality. Well, that’s
just the tip of the iceberg. I’ll keep the rest to myself so if I’m wrong I don’t
make a total fool of myself.
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