And they need US addresses sometimes. To do business with vendors. But there's lot of us who work remotely or virtually. It's kinda the last bit of communication that's still location dependent.
I travel a lot. This is kinda interesting. If there's a video record of everything that happens when I request a scan, I'm ok with that. They only scan the envelope first, no?
For a long time, I've been trying to go virtual: online mail, online backup, online everything. Since the mainstreaming of cell phones and Web services, very little tethers us to one location. As a New Yorker, I've been thinking a lot about mobility, especially since 9-11, the tsunami, and most recently hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I was hoping this topic would surface here. What do I need if I want to pack and need to move to another town on a minute's notice? And it got me thinking about communications, transportation, delivery of goods and services. If any of us had to pack up and go, what would we need? What helps us become nomads? Here are my must-have nomadic goods and services:
*Communication: Cell/Treo/Laptop *Financial: Cash/Amex card/ATM card *Work/Collaboration: Webex/salesforce.com/Gmail *Entertainment/Leisure: Netflix/Amazon.com
What am I missing?
The Nomadic Paradigm, or How I Learned to Free Myself of Geography and Why this Matters More than Ever.
For a long time, I've been trying to go virtual: online mail, online backup, online everything. Since the mainstreaming of cell phones and Web services, very little tethers us to one location. As a New Yorker, I've been thinking a lot about mobility, especially since 9-11, the tsunami, and most recently hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I was hoping this topic would surface here.
What do I need if I want to pack and need to move to another town on a minute's notice? And it got me thinking about communications, transportation, delivery of goods and services. If any of us had to pack up and go, what would we need? What helps us become nomads?
Here are my must-have nomadic goods and services:
*Communication: Cell/Treo/Laptop
*Financial: Cash/Amex card/ATM card
*Work/Collaboration: Webex/salesforce.com/Gmail
*Entertainment/Leisure: Netflix/Amazon.com
What am I missing?
Slashdot Mirror
And they need US addresses sometimes. To do business with vendors. But there's lot of us who work remotely or virtually. It's kinda the last bit of communication that's still location dependent.
I travel a lot. This is kinda interesting. If there's a video record of everything that happens when I request a scan, I'm ok with that. They only scan the envelope first, no?
For a long time, I've been trying to go virtual: online mail, online backup, online everything. Since the mainstreaming of cell phones and Web services, very little tethers us to one location. As a New Yorker, I've been thinking a lot about mobility, especially since 9-11, the tsunami, and most recently hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I was hoping this topic would surface here. What do I need if I want to pack and need to move to another town on a minute's notice? And it got me thinking about communications, transportation, delivery of goods and services. If any of us had to pack up and go, what would we need? What helps us become nomads? Here are my must-have nomadic goods and services: *Communication: Cell/Treo/Laptop *Financial: Cash/Amex card/ATM card *Work/Collaboration: Webex/salesforce.com/Gmail *Entertainment/Leisure: Netflix/Amazon.com What am I missing?
The Nomadic Paradigm, or How I Learned to Free Myself of Geography and Why this Matters More than Ever. For a long time, I've been trying to go virtual: online mail, online backup, online everything. Since the mainstreaming of cell phones and Web services, very little tethers us to one location. As a New Yorker, I've been thinking a lot about mobility, especially since 9-11, the tsunami, and most recently hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I was hoping this topic would surface here. What do I need if I want to pack and need to move to another town on a minute's notice? And it got me thinking about communications, transportation, delivery of goods and services. If any of us had to pack up and go, what would we need? What helps us become nomads? Here are my must-have nomadic goods and services: *Communication: Cell/Treo/Laptop *Financial: Cash/Amex card/ATM card *Work/Collaboration: Webex/salesforce.com/Gmail *Entertainment/Leisure: Netflix/Amazon.com What am I missing?
It's a figure of speech. Relax. Firefox will lose market share. You satisfied?