Are you jacked in?

1) Software is no longer in your desktop. Its out there in the online world.
2) People are no longer "next door", "next state", "next country" or "far away". They are "nowhere" but they are "near". You can talk to them, ask them questions and get to know their needs. Seeing them is no longer a necessity.
3) Are you an SMB (Small and Medium Business) who think IT strategy is another type of chocolate? Is that preventing you from making your business process easier and automated? Are you not able to invest and manage IT resources since that is not your core strength. You are no longer left out of the group of other biggies optimizing their processes. Buy an appliance, configure it and forget about it.
4) You are on the road and you are fed up with the songs that you are hearing. You search and download what you need.
5) You are in the neighboring city and want to know the best Indian restaurant. Use your mobile.
6) You friend called you using a messenger which figured out you were not at home, not at office and therefore tried calling your mobile which was out of reach and therefore it left a voice message which was delivered to your email account which you received via a blackberry when it encountered the next "tower". - Unified Communication.

The above seemingly unconnected points are connected simply because you are now "connected". The availability of the network has made possible tremendous advances in business and personal life.

The internet is becoming eerily similar to The Matrix where you can do extraordinary things simply because you are no longer bound by the physics of this world.

Crowd Intelligence like the Borgs is providing previously unheard, not thought of possibilities. Who in Gods name would have guessed that the best way to write a dictionary of "everything" is to simply create an empty dictionary and ask the world to write it!
Who thought that the best way to create a map of countries, states, cities, streets where accurate data was not available is to simply create a satellite picture and allow the people of the streets, cities, states and countries to do the "mapping"?

Whats interesting is that this has always been staring at right in front of our faces. The Grid! The only thing that changed was .... the network. If a problem can be solved by parallel computing, knowledge can be accumulated by 'world'izens a.k.a Citizens. Its the era of people grid computing.

You are no longer bound by time since you can give when you have the time, you are no longer bound by knowledge since the people who have knowledge will provide it, you are no longer bound by cost since people are ready to fund it, you are no longer bound....

Man has finally set himself free simply by understanding what he knows for thousands