We live in very exciting times. Wave after wave of technological innovations are changing our lives on a daily basis. Often, we don’t notice the change until we are swept up by it. For instance, who amongst us would have said that they would use a tablet even as recent as 10 years ago? Yet today, there are many students that consider a tablet more of a necessary education tool than notebooks. Or, go back a few more years and ask who would have thought they would send money or letters via a computer vs. U.S. Mail. There are many more examples, much too many for the scope of this article; suffice to say that how we live, what we do, and how we do it, has changed more in the past two decades than it had in the previous two millennia.
When it comes to technology, some ideas take years to develop, and some sprout up seemingly overnight. The truth of the matter is that there is a method to the madness. New ideas are almost never instant overnight mass sensations. Rather, they often get introduced to the market, taken up by early adopters, and get written off as a fad by status quo protectors. If they survive, they gain momentum and get perfected, manifest themselves as new morphs that appeal to the masses and finally become a paradigm shift – and then the world is changed forever.
The key is the “paradigm shift” status. That’s when your life will change. Paradigm shifts are like earth’s tectonic plates. Once they shift, the landscape is changed forever, or at least till the next paradigm shift. A little trip down memory lane reveals a few pivotal moves in technology that makes a few years ago look oh so pre-historic:
So what is the next paradigm shift? Crowdsourcing. Find out why in part two of this article.
Siamak Farah is the CEO of InfoStreet (News - Alert). InfoStreet is a Cloud app provider that offers SkyDesktop, a free patent-pending Cloud Desktop; SkyAppMarket, an app marketplace where a business can choose from the best Cloud apps in the market; and SkySingleSignOn, a federated login solution and network management tool. Together they provide all the files and applications a company needs to run their business in the Cloud. Try SkyDesktop and SkyAppMarket by visiting https://www.skydesktop.com or by calling 1-866-956-5051 for more information.