![]() ![]() With the evolution of Cloud Computing, It’s enough to surge back to the momentum of the early days of endless possibilities - with one major caveat: Realism and never forgetting our human factor, something no algorithm or over-architected “smarter-than-me-system” can ever replace entirely (unless we allow it to). If the race for efficiencies and improvements in business as well as in the lives of people in putting mobile computing devices in the hands of nearly everyone worldwide isn’t enough, just look how far innovation has come that the global body of knowledge is just a click away, that the average mobile device has significantly more Gigs of memory than the mainframes that large companies ran on in the 90’s. If there are lessons to be learned from a radical swing from Idealism and Endless Optimism to a pervasive Pessimism, it is that eventually one must calibrate towards balance. ![]() Fast forward past the events of 9/11 and the economic downturn, thoughts of exponential optimism was starkly shrouded by the news. The proficiency was the team's ability to access content quickly and accurately, glean pertinent information, and build relationships to make meaningful connections to employment.Īs the Internet was taking shape and the race to innovate, create, and build websites, it created a fervor of excitement that anything and everything was possible - that you could in fact take your destiny by the reigns -That where you stood today was not where you had to stay if you worked hard and smart enough. The only search engine was the team's ability to think quickly and efficiently as we thumbed through paper folders to place Cobol programmers. Meanwhile, the walls were lined with file cabinets of technical resumes and one pc, which we all shared. In a small office in a small suburb of the now Dulles Corridor in Reston, VA, we were ahead of the technology curve because we had car phones hard-wired installed in our cars. As we sail through unchartered courses of uncertainty over the future, a future previously unimaginable - quantum in its possibilities, I can’t help but reflect back to the mid-nineties.
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