Six years ago, Saturday mornings on the sofa looked different
This morning as I was was doing my current Saturday morning deal, which is great, fresh ground coffee from @CommonPlace in Pittsburgh, PA, some reading material and a 3.5 lbs. Yorkie (Phoebi) in my lap, it occurred to me how different this looked form just a few years back.
Way back then, I had a copy of the Charlotte Observer and a cup of coffee, not http://www.commonplacecoffee.com coffee mind you and maybe, just maybe, a laptop near by, just in case and whatever book I happened to be reading at that time. Probably, @Tom_Peters or @ThisIsSethsBlog Godin, as he is the original Man on the Move. Seemed pretty normal to me and Phoebi.
New era: Coffee, Mac PowerBook running for @Twitter feed and LinkedIn perusing, iPhone down loading a book to listen to on an upcoming trip, a hard-copy, yes paper, book I am reading, ... Think @MitchJoel, @BreneBrown, @JonathanFields or maybe @Nilofer, the iPad handy for looking up words that true genius writers use to stretch my gray matter & an old school hand written journal for thought keeping ... And yes, Phoebi.
This kind of got my brain gnashing around with some material that I recently read in @JayBaer 's new book #Youtility. Jay quoted a gent named, #GeorgeColony, CEO of Forrester Research, http://www.forrester.com, who laid it out this: "As the web becomes the AM radio of digital, the mobile App Internet will rise. This market will be dominated by two or three ecosystems ... semi-closed worlds built on a closely fitting set of apps, phones, tablets, computers, operating systems & partners." 
I guess after reading Mr. Colony's quote, that/This time has arrived. As an example of this, according to #Apple, the company sold more iPads in April through June of 2012 than any other computer manufacturer sold of their entire product line. In support of this fact, Gartner, Inc., @Gartner_Inc, reported that app downloads will increase more than 600% between 2012 & 2016. 
Why is all of this important? I think it is important & very relevant as it pertains to the economy. More of this type growth and the proliferation of data & data issuing and consuming devices will help drive us to a more robust economy. Think of it in terms of a small business owner like AirTight. As more and more people come on line, in a mobile way, we will, as a nation, state, city, and company be impacted in a positive way. Business develop things, hardware, software and #DataCenters and #CoLo environments to support all of this mobility in a digital sense. So those people and companies do well, it even trickles all the way down to our size company, as we specialize in removing heat from data centers & colos.
So no real earth-shattering facts here, just a realization that we as a people have changed, we tend to be embracing technology at an incredible rate and this is how we are going down the road.
I love it. And judging by the way Phoebi nestles in ... She's pretty good with it as well.
Enjoy technology and your own way of using it.
G
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