REALITY CHECK - TECHNOLOGY MADE US VIRTUAL

Let face it, technology changed the face of work. Knowledge workers have become 24 hour clock human machine clicked on technology, once in a while flipping the machine to stay up with latest action at work. Work is no longer static, but it is a blood path line of a network of human knowledge running through machines. Even 8-5 workers are forced to be virtualized by demanding work schedules.

My ambition when growing up was an envisioned work environment of 8-5. The work environment reserved for most knowledge workers, people who worked 5 days a week and had their weekend off. Technology was a remote thing, there were no cell phones and even the privileged few with land line phones suffered from the inefficiency of Phone Company for falling to regularly maintain the land lines. In some rarely cases, if there was an emergency requiring company attention, a company car had to be deployed for search and rescue mission to search for the responsible person in case of emergency. With high rate of success, such rescue missions were accomplished because people rarely wondered a way from their normal routine.

Knew phase of work revolutionary started with technology - first it was pagers employed to sales people, IT people and doctors. Search rescue mission were being phased out by technology, when pager went on you knew you were on duty. The excitement was short lived by introduction of cell phones, initially reserved as a status quo for affluent members of society and business due to exorbitant cost, things changed as cost got driven down by liberation of air waves and competition. A highly agricultural dependable economy started a phase of Wannabes with passion to drive the economy a way from desk tied and from traditional labor intensive economy to a mobile knowledge economy and Mavericks of the next great generation of entrepreneurs wanting to overcome the traditional hiccups of business financing and lack of asset security.

Embracing the future requires adapting to the changing environment or otherwise distinction is imminent for slackers. This pace calls for embracing new technologies and skills in order to stay competitive. Any country, an individual or organization has to aligning to the changes shaping the global world. The world is a flat bed of wired internet connection searching for the next revolutionary break through to happen, a break through which can happen from anywhere. The above story is a recount of East Africa most affluent Economy, Kenya. This shows how mobility improved efficiency and accelerated the economic action in a country which had a desk tied economy. A future embraced through wannabes and mavericks of technology adopters.

Either way, whether you embrace the future or not, or with or without your consciousness you are forced once in a while to work virtually. Forrester predicts that the entire 85 % of work force in 2015 will be mobile workers; this will represents more than 649.1 million workers around the world. It is a new world, and a global world where million dollars companies are build virtually without a single existence of a block.