I have one address that will always find me, you will even know what i'm doing at that moment, or where i'm at. Voice, video, text, however you want to communicate it's one 'number', one address. Google is making advances in this arena for the consumer market, although they are not quite there.
Personally I have no qualms with this 'always on' mentality, working with it is a change in the way one 'works'. It does take discipline to break away from the job and have the personal time. People grab on to the fact that they can always get stuff from you and they exploit as they need. Although i forget some of the times, its all about just saying no.
Watching the industry news its obvious that this is coming. Cingular has signed up with Myspace adding to theexplosion of social networks. Verizon just signed away $2B to boost their network for support of higher bandwidth apps. Microsoft in it's next releases bring the clients completely integrated, and the delievery of these services curtosey of their servers.
My generation and those following have grown up immersed and are to the point where they would rather text than call; IM is more natural than speaking. While these technologies have exploded in social arenas it must be embraced by all for them to fully function in a business setting. Bridging the gap of technology to the generations that have seen life without the tech is where you meet the resistance in acceptance. Personally I think that a cycle in the workplace is required before a digital identity will fully catch on.
I guess my question is how do you peoples see the perception of this technology in the mainstream?
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