It was this past Wednesday morning as I was driving with two of my colleagues when it hit me.  This decade is almost over.  Has it really been eight years since people wore those “2000″ party sunglasses in Times Square?  

It does seem like a lifetime ago that the main technology topic was the Y2K bug.  Now that 2001: A Space Odyssey is further away than its sequel, how far have we come?  

One word - convergence.  

As I bounced from Cincinnati to Indianapolis to Chicago and back to Indianapolis this week, I accomplished the same amount of work with my iPhone and laptop from the road than if I had been anchored to an office and desktop computer.  In some ways, I accomplished more.  

Thanks to the creation of advanced web applications like YouTube, Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Ning and the ability to connect to these websites from my iPhone, I am able to connect to others and contribute my thoughts and ideas from anywhere that has cell coverage.  What’s amazing to me is that everything in this paragraph hasn’t been around longer than three years.   

Here’s just a sampling of I what checked off my To-Do list from the road:

• Started a neighborhood social network website in twenty minutes;
• Created a sales presentation slide show and exported it to my iPhone;
• Researched prospective clients using LinkedIn and other websites; and
• Found the website of Hot Doug’s, a gourmet hot dog place in Chicago, and got driving directions from the street corner I was standing.

 Pretty cool especially when you consider I have no programming skills and average computer skills.  If that’s possible now for a person like me, what do you think will the next three years bring?    

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