Comments on: ANYWHERE: The book http://blogs.yankeegroup.com/2009/11/18/anywhere-the-book/ the global connectivity experts™ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:16:27 -0400 hourly 1 By: Ira Laefsky http://blogs.yankeegroup.com/2009/11/18/anywhere-the-book/comment-page-1/#comment-3321 Ira Laefsky Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:19:45 +0000 http://blogs.yankeegroup.com/?p=2862#comment-3321 Hi Emily: I am also a graduate of UPENN/SEAS MSE IN CS (MSE/MBA 83) and a former consultant for Arthur D. Little & Digital Equipment Corporation. I saw your book in Barnes and Noble today and had a chance to look through it briefly. I was curious to see nothing in the index on Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing ala Adam Greenfield's "Everywear". Do you not see a connection between portable technologies (IPHONES tablet/slates, Anywhere communication technologies (like Videoconferencing) and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks and Smart Architecture/Smart Cities? I would also be interested in reviewing your book for Amazon where I am a frequent reviewer on IT & Electronic Topics http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A15PV8J0IYVDNH/ref=ya_T15_26?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview --Ira Laefsky Hi Emily: I am also a graduate of UPENN/SEAS MSE IN CS
(MSE/MBA 83)
and a former consultant for Arthur D. Little & Digital Equipment Corporation. I saw your book in Barnes and Noble today and had a chance to look through it briefly.
I was curious to see nothing in the index on Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing ala Adam Greenfield’s “Everywear”. Do you not see a connection between portable technologies (IPHONES tablet/slates, Anywhere communication technologies (like Videoconferencing) and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks and Smart Architecture/Smart Cities? I would also be interested in reviewing your book for Amazon where I am a frequent reviewer on IT & Electronic Topics
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A15PV8J0IYVDNH/ref=ya_T15_26?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview

–Ira Laefsky

]]> By: Emily Green http://blogs.yankeegroup.com/2009/11/18/anywhere-the-book/comment-page-1/#comment-3186 Emily Green Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:49:14 +0000 http://blogs.yankeegroup.com/?p=2862#comment-3186 Our team sent a version of this post to some clients and friends yesterday, and among all the notes of congratulations and encouragement (thanks!), I got this response last night: "Quite honestly, Emily, I don't blog, I don't twitter, I don't facebook, and I don't really want to be available anywhere, anytime. I don't use GPS and I just got a cell phone last month (but I rarely use it). I know this flies in the face of the on-going social revolution, but my business functions quite nicely without all of these distractions, and my life is much less stressful. As for e-books, no thanks again. I'm much more content to pick up a hard copy magazine or book and read at my leisure without having to rely on any computers, internet, ethernet, or even electricity. I can't think of a worse scenario than sitting by my fireplace reading a favorite book - ON MY LAPTOP COMPUTER or whatever the latest gee whiz device is at the time! Give me the printed page and a bookmark anytime. I'm betting on being able to read that book long after the electronic versions have evaporated into never never land." My response: I hear you. When the team here said I needed to start using Twitter, I wondered: does a 52-year-old really need to tweet? And can I? Each new wave of technology has presented me with an opportunity to accept or reject it in my life. And it can be challenging to reject some of these new options if the world around us moves quickly to presume their indispensability. But while you and I can sculpt our individual responses to Anywhere, the world is going there all the same. The good news is that the rise of connectivity will provide options for a better life for many people who don't have the choices we do now. Emerging markets will get better healthcare, fairer wages, higher literacy, and more because they can participate in a global marketplace due to the rise of wireless broadband and affordable devices to use it. Our team sent a version of this post to some clients and friends yesterday, and among all the notes of congratulations and encouragement (thanks!), I got this response last night:

“Quite honestly, Emily, I don’t blog, I don’t twitter, I don’t facebook, and I don’t really want to be available anywhere, anytime. I don’t use GPS and I just got a cell phone last month (but I rarely use it). I know this flies in the face of the on-going social revolution, but my business functions quite nicely without all of these distractions, and my life is much less stressful. As for e-books, no thanks again. I’m much more content to pick up a hard copy magazine or book and read at my leisure without having to rely on any computers, internet, ethernet, or even electricity. I can’t think of a worse scenario than sitting by my fireplace reading a favorite book – ON MY LAPTOP COMPUTER or whatever the latest gee whiz device is at the time! Give me the printed page and a bookmark anytime. I’m betting on being able to read that book long after the electronic versions have evaporated into never never land.”

My response: I hear you. When the team here said I needed to start using Twitter, I wondered: does a 52-year-old really need to tweet? And can I? Each new wave of technology has presented me with an opportunity to accept or reject it in my life. And it can be challenging to reject some of these new options if the world around us moves quickly to presume their indispensability.

But while you and I can sculpt our individual responses to Anywhere, the world is going there all the same. The good news is that the rise of connectivity will provide options for a better life for many people who don’t have the choices we do now. Emerging markets will get better healthcare, fairer wages, higher literacy, and more because they can participate in a global marketplace due to the rise of wireless broadband and affordable devices to use it.

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