One of my favourite blogs is Nine Shift and the book of the same title is still worth reading, even after being in publication since 2003. Bill & Julie have recently been asking several questions that warrant comments, so I’m linking to them here:
What you are doing in response to expensive gas.
If you have a feature special to you in your home office.
Whether students should be penalized for late work.
Whether you think the web will help close the gender pay gap.
Here’s a snippet from the book:
As we will see, the Internet is behaving exactly in the same way as the automobile did 100 years ago in its impact on society. The auto is not used here as an “analogy”, which is defined as something “somewhat similar”. Instead the influence of the Internet on our lives is exactly a replay, a mirror, of the influence of the auto on society 100 years ago. The outcomes will be different of course, but the forces and how these forces interact and change our lives, are the same.
This book is not really about the Internet. It is more about the consequences and changes of the Internet, about how the Internet is changing how we work, live and learn in this century.
