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Must/Likely/Might

June 13, 2009 by Steven Savage

A year plus into this blog, and I find myself wondering just what technologies people, not just geeks, will be embracing in the years to come. SO much has changed in just one year, the world has been altered radically in the last ten technology-wise, and many cultural shifts have gone unnoticed (remember when games were for geeks not everyone? That was what, 2 years ago?).

So I asked myself what technologies out there people must embrace or fall behind, will likely embrace, and may embrace in a large-but-not-widescale way. In short, what are people definitely and likely going to be using five years from now.

So here's my take

Generations and Networking

June 11, 2009 by Steven Savage

I was recently at a meeting of people that were all Gen Xers, and we got into a conversation about networking and connecting. It was quite interesting as there was an honest feeling that the Boomers, the Xers, and Generation Y all had very different social patterns. It roughly boiled down like this:

Brilliance Unrealized

June 10, 2009 by Steven Savage

A strange thing holds us back at time – not a lack of good ideas for our careers, our art, our lives, but too many of them.

We run around trying to implement them all – and fail. We worry over what idea to use, what technique to try, what code to develop – and get less done. At time's we're just frustrated – at least when we had writer's block or other creative stagnation we weren't trying to decide between multiple good things.