I’ve been reading all of the top tech technologies from 2009 or predictions for 2010 – but it was strange article from a blog called What Direction that caught my eye. I think it’s a personal blog with a religious twist – but one paragraph got it caught in my Google Alert:
Unprecedented opportunities and possibilities. A vacant job these days, could go to someone in Calcutta, Beijing or Minnesota. A team from all these different places can communicate and work as if they’re next to one another. They used to marvel that they could be in Tokyo and then London on the same day to attend meetings. Now we can be virtually anywhere in the world at anytime, or all at the same time! It’s a borderless global marketplace, economy and audience. People are earning untold, unnumbered sums of money from unlimited number of customers over the web, in their pyjamas.
It is fascinating to see the flattening of the world but the author above forgot to mention that a vacant job can go to anyone with adequate broadband! That’s an essential factor for communities in Minnesota. Now more than ever the Internet has become like a superhighway. It’s either going to lead the world to your door or pass you by.
