The internet is supposed to make it easier for businesses and business people
to connect and get things done faster, like, for example, recruiting business
people, but ironically internet governance connected groups spend most of their
time physically traveling to places to get mostly nothing done, and say
"more work needs to be done".
Anybody remember NamesCon 2008? Me niether. There hasn't ever been a
Conference that the whole world benefitted from, because conferences in the
internet age are not meant for progress, conferences are just excuses for
people to travel, to see and be seen, to party, in my opinion, and in my
opinion proven by the fact that the internet's supposed and oft-mentioned
purpose is to facilitate the entire business process, making the decision
making/meeting process at conferences obsolete, unnecessary in a business
sense, and also laughable, when some business people who could easily talk and
compare business notes any time of day via the internet say, "Let's
wait for the conference to decide on that." Why?
So Travelers can say they are leaders who physically traveled to meet and talk
with relevant business people, when I am as much of a leader writing this
single critique via email as they are traveling to vegas to walk around and
say, "ooh, that's interesting" 1000 times. While it might be fun
to do, the internet community is waiting for real tangible progress and real
solutions to real world problems and all the tech community has provided them
in the past 12 months is an IWatch. I would argue that the "constant
conference culture" limits real progress by getting people stuck in a
never ending travel loop, where all they begin to care about is the quality of
the next travel destination.
Ron
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