Something has been happening in the last few years but became quite striking over this transition from 2012 to 2013 and that is the disappearing act of the diary/appointment books as we have come to know them. Most people close to me know that I am a classic laggard when it comes to the new hot pieces of technologies on the market - such as smart phones; so it may come as no surprise that I am just being hit with the reality that I am among the few who still need the physical diary to function.
Most of my friends don't because they have smart phones. Companies are not wasting harder-to-come-by money acquiring diaries for neither staff nor clients because, "you all have phones, don't you?". So a twist on the old song "Where have all the young girls gone?" could go something like this: Where have all the diaries gone? Gone to smart phones everywhere...when will we ever learn?
Most of my friends don't because they have smart phones. Companies are not wasting harder-to-come-by money acquiring diaries for neither staff nor clients because, "you all have phones, don't you?". So a twist on the old song "Where have all the young girls gone?" could go something like this: Where have all the diaries gone? Gone to smart phones everywhere...when will we ever learn?
Ah, well. There are many things to learn about the real world being taken over by the virtual world and one of them is that there is no money being spent in the real world except on the purchase of new physical tools. We should talk one day abut the other realities of the virtual world that are impacting the real world and how for example, one day we will be wondering from whence came our squinted knock-kneed eyes.
Just saying.
