Value
I was talking to a good friend yesterday about life, moving, and tech, and he asked me a question that I have been on and off asking myself since starting MMM: what is the value of mobile technology and why should anyone care?
I've spent many a day and night here posting about various aspects of the tool, the connection, the technology, the function of technology. Those are elements yes, but what is the value of such a connection, and is it more or less something that I'm looking too hard for or something that is there, but people are not willing to see it.
I remarked to my friend that two plus years ago, for me to recommend a Treo to anyone was considered going too far for them. I saw it simply as they valued some aspect of keeping life managable and that tool and its related services would work. Most didn't heed that and go locked into other systems and tools that have or have not worked out as well. But many of those people are now (as in this moment and not far before or after) looking at the Treo and similar communicators as an part of their life management puzzle. I saw it, but I was ahead of the times, hence the value proposition on my end was not well received.
Which then leads to that last question of why anyone should care. Honestly speaking, I sometimes don't know why I care other than that I like to connect with people yet not have my people interactions rule my time and life. I have read and seen plenty of stories where successful ministers and business people alike had this loss of prioroties and boundaries and tried to use a quick fix service or technology to try and mend those behaviorial fixes. I've personally see mobile tech change the way that I behave towards everything and believe that I have something to offer. Should you listen? Probably, if only because you might find that your tool or service does a bit more than you though, making it more valuable to you.
But if you didn't value something, then why would people even both to listen to you talk about it. Our faith has such value that we don't hesitate to affix it to everything that we are. Not saying that tech should have the same place, but if there is something that you value and it works, why wouldn't you be willing to share it with someone else; making their lives more valuable to those that love them too.
I've spent many a day and night here posting about various aspects of the tool, the connection, the technology, the function of technology. Those are elements yes, but what is the value of such a connection, and is it more or less something that I'm looking too hard for or something that is there, but people are not willing to see it.
I remarked to my friend that two plus years ago, for me to recommend a Treo to anyone was considered going too far for them. I saw it simply as they valued some aspect of keeping life managable and that tool and its related services would work. Most didn't heed that and go locked into other systems and tools that have or have not worked out as well. But many of those people are now (as in this moment and not far before or after) looking at the Treo and similar communicators as an part of their life management puzzle. I saw it, but I was ahead of the times, hence the value proposition on my end was not well received.
Which then leads to that last question of why anyone should care. Honestly speaking, I sometimes don't know why I care other than that I like to connect with people yet not have my people interactions rule my time and life. I have read and seen plenty of stories where successful ministers and business people alike had this loss of prioroties and boundaries and tried to use a quick fix service or technology to try and mend those behaviorial fixes. I've personally see mobile tech change the way that I behave towards everything and believe that I have something to offer. Should you listen? Probably, if only because you might find that your tool or service does a bit more than you though, making it more valuable to you.
But if you didn't value something, then why would people even both to listen to you talk about it. Our faith has such value that we don't hesitate to affix it to everything that we are. Not saying that tech should have the same place, but if there is something that you value and it works, why wouldn't you be willing to share it with someone else; making their lives more valuable to those that love them too.
posted by Antoine @ 6/23/2007 03:43:00 PM
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