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Who’s not on internet & why not?

July 10th, 2009 Gordon Wood 3 comments

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results"...WCPrint Print

Travelling around the net and its inter-pipes as we do, we tend now to take it all for granted. Even the colloquia defines its omnipresence.

But recently when I emailed a link to a friend to subscribe to my blog, she replied.  “I need to research how to do that”

My thought was “Oh dear, how often we take so much for granted”

As we live in a busy business world it seems we are totally dominated by the digital presence not even a decade old. The truth is, for many “The Internet” is  barely understood and is used only in limited ways.

Certainly no one asks what the internet is anymore. But unlike the telephone and television that is all pervasive and taken for granted, it still has a long way to go.

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How was it done in 1957 & now?

May 8th, 2009 Gordon Wood 3 comments

scanned image of watercolor by W. F. E.Do things really change or is it the way we see it?

To  those who knew it  then it may seem that the  simple life was not always easy. But considering it now  maybe they much better deal. I wonder if it is possible to get that back and still keep the best of both worlds. Should we  try and if so how?

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Educating an Expediential Planet?

April 16th, 2009 Gordon Wood 2 comments

The rate of change is so incredible; it is hard to believe that China is becoming the world’s number one English speaking country. Mind blowing is the fact that for technical students starting a four year degree, half of what they lean will be out of date before their third year of study is completed. What about jobs? Did you know that the top 10 jobs in demand now did not exist in 2004?

I was prompted to search out this information and the video below after getting some feedback about Ralph Eastman’s question “Is reading replacing TV as a pastime” as he eluded to increasing internet readerships trends. I also noted a comment from subscribers. My research of course is so easy now isn’t it, with the internet which is now my constant tool of trade? And here are some of the facts I found in my digging. There are also some interesting tit bits to ponder.

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