Comments on: What’s Time?

By: Dave Morin - davemorin.com/blog

Dave Morin - davemorin.com/blog — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:13:32 +0000

[...] Then, later that week, JP wrote this blog after he took a look at one of my earlier posts talking about how to manage our generation (subsequently after Sean had taken a look at this one). And, he is right on the money. The world is evolving so rapidly through technology and the social connections it creates, that many firms and managers can’t keep up. Our generation connects, communicates, and moves about at ridiculously fast speeds. [...]

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:21:05 +0000

Dave,
While I was in China a few weeks ago I knew a friend of mine was going to be in Shanghai around the same time. He was on a long trip through asia and had no phone. I had no phone. Niether of us new eachother’s email adresses. We both had myspace though. So I “myspaced” him and told him where I was at. The next day I got a new message from him with his hotel phone and room number. It turns out his hotel was less than a mile away. To make a long-story short we got connected via local phone calls and he was with more people I knew from San Jose. We all went out and had a blast getting crazy on the streets of Shanghai.

Moral of the story…I could not believe Myspace was my answer to communicating with a friend who I know in SJ while we were both in China.

The real moral of the story… Go to Shanghai, it is AMAZING.

By: Clementine

Clementine — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:28:05 +0000

Yeah I agree with Sister (#2). After living in Europe for 2.5 years and making friends all over the world, I have realized how odd it is that I can sit in Montana working and still talk to my friend in Istanbul, Turkey. Not ever realizing that he is halfway across the ocean and that at the point we met eachother we were in opposite places (I Europe, he USA). Knowing that Globalization is common for our genneration, just makes me smile.

By: Addy

Addy — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 06:23:03 +0000

I’ve definitely experienced some similar things thanks to technology. Years ago there would be no way for me to find out, apply and then obtain a job at my university in the states while spending so much time in Germany. Even though I’ve spent a year away from it all, I have found that keeping in touch, and even staying involved on the campus at home are really not too difficult. Thanks to VoIP, instant messaging, Facebook, and blogs and such, it’s been no problem to have some form of contact with friends, family, and the University in the states. I’ve even been able to conduct a bit of business when necessary.

I have realized, on account of this, that I am more willing to move back to Germany, or elsewhere for a prolonged period of time, because I know I can still be in contact with people close to me. I think it may mean that we see more international relationships come to form.

The one thing that I do question in the scheme of it all is language. I know in Germany, English already has a firm grip influencing the culture, advertising, and the Language. With international borders becoming more open, more people traveling and a need to communicate with one another effectively, English is being used even more world-wide. What does that mean for other languages, will we see them dwindle out? or change drastically?

Great topic, I just had to put my two cents in. It’s stuff I’ve thought about as well.