http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/ paglia's thoughts: "one to negative one" and some noise in between Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Stephen Smoliar Fri, 18 May 2007 18:55:44 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/#comment-82 <p>I remember hearing Jerry Yang talk at a Cable TV convention. He described going to a restaurant in South Korea. At the next table were about half a dozen guys, all of whom were watching television on their cell phones! It makes you wonder why they bothers to go out to eat together!</p> I remember hearing Jerry Yang talk at a Cable TV convention. He described going to a restaurant in South Korea. At the next table were about half a dozen guys, all of whom were watching television on their cell phones! It makes you wonder why they bothers to go out to eat together!

]]> http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Stephen Smoliar Fri, 18 May 2007 18:55:00 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/#comment-739 I remember hearing Jerry Yang talk at a Cable TV convention. He described going to a restaurant in South Korea. At the next table were about half a dozen guys, all of whom were watching television on their cell phones! It makes you wonder why they bothers to go out to eat together! I remember hearing Jerry Yang talk at a Cable TV convention. He described going to a restaurant in South Korea. At the next table were about half a dozen guys, all of whom were watching television on their cell phones! It makes you wonder why they bothers to go out to eat together!

]]> http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Lou Paglia Thu, 17 May 2007 22:59:45 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/#comment-81 <p>True, there are definite benefits. But just yesterday I experienced first hand what the Forbes article was talking about. There I was at lunch with four colleague sitting at the table in the restaurant. Two of us on email (one on blackberry and me on the Treo), one colleague sitting there and one checking voicemail. We had to agree to put our devices down and leverage the opportunity to talk. Pretty interesting.</p> True, there are definite benefits. But just yesterday I experienced first hand what the Forbes article was talking about. There I was at lunch with four colleague sitting at the table in the restaurant. Two of us on email (one on blackberry and me on the Treo), one colleague sitting there and one checking voicemail. We had to agree to put our devices down and leverage the opportunity to talk. Pretty interesting.

]]> http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-738 Lou Paglia Thu, 17 May 2007 22:59:00 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/#comment-738 True, there are definite benefits. But just yesterday I experienced first hand what the Forbes article was talking about. There I was at lunch with four colleague sitting at the table in the restaurant. Two of us on email (one on blackberry and me on the Treo), one colleague sitting there and one checking voicemail. We had to agree to put our devices down and leverage the opportunity to talk. Pretty interesting. True, there are definite benefits. But just yesterday I experienced first hand what the Forbes article was talking about. There I was at lunch with four colleague sitting at the table in the restaurant. Two of us on email (one on blackberry and me on the Treo), one colleague sitting there and one checking voicemail. We had to agree to put our devices down and leverage the opportunity to talk. Pretty interesting.

]]> http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Stephen Smoliar Thu, 17 May 2007 18:15:27 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/#comment-80 <p>Your closing example reminds me of my first laptop. I bought it when we were living in Singapore. It was an Apple PowerBook 170, which I had purchased when I realized that it had enough power and space to run Apple Common Lisp. I took it along on a vacation we spent at a resort on Borneo, and my wife probably still has a photograph of me working on Lisp code at a poolside table! This was a great object of derision for her until, several years later, we were both attending the same conference in Hawaii; and <i>she</i> was preparing her PowerPoint slides on <i>her</i> PowerBook! More recently, she wanted to shop at a particular gourmet-food outlet along the road during another vacation trip. It turned out that the place had a coffee bar with WiFi, so I pulled out my ThinkPad and took care of mail and RSS news while she did her shopping. That kind of connectivity can sometimes make for a happy marriage!</p> Your closing example reminds me of my first laptop. I bought it when we were living in Singapore. It was an Apple PowerBook 170, which I had purchased when I realized that it had enough power and space to run Apple Common Lisp. I took it along on a vacation we spent at a resort on Borneo, and my wife probably still has a photograph of me working on Lisp code at a poolside table! This was a great object of derision for her until, several years later, we were both attending the same conference in Hawaii; and <i>she</i> was preparing her PowerPoint slides on <i>her</i> PowerBook! More recently, she wanted to shop at a particular gourmet-food outlet along the road during another vacation trip. It turned out that the place had a coffee bar with WiFi, so I pulled out my ThinkPad and took care of mail and RSS news while she did her shopping. That kind of connectivity can sometimes make for a happy marriage!

]]> http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-737 Stephen Smoliar Thu, 17 May 2007 18:15:00 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/05/16/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-connectivity/#comment-737 Your closing example reminds me of my first laptop. I bought it when we were living in Singapore. It was an Apple PowerBook 170, which I had purchased when I realized that it had enough power and space to run Apple Common Lisp. I took it along on a vacation we spent at a resort on Borneo, and my wife probably still has a photograph of me working on Lisp code at a poolside table! This was a great object of derision for her until, several years later, we were both attending the same conference in Hawaii; and <i>she</i> was preparing her PowerPoint slides on <i>her</i> PowerBook! More recently, she wanted to shop at a particular gourmet-food outlet along the road during another vacation trip. It turned out that the place had a coffee bar with WiFi, so I pulled out my ThinkPad and took care of mail and RSS news while she did her shopping. That kind of connectivity can sometimes make for a happy marriage! Your closing example reminds me of my first laptop. I bought it when we were living in Singapore. It was an Apple PowerBook 170, which I had purchased when I realized that it had enough power and space to run Apple Common Lisp. I took it along on a vacation we spent at a resort on Borneo, and my wife probably still has a photograph of me working on Lisp code at a poolside table! This was a great object of derision for her until, several years later, we were both attending the same conference in Hawaii; and <i>she</i> was preparing her PowerPoint slides on <i>her</i> PowerBook! More recently, she wanted to shop at a particular gourmet-food outlet along the road during another vacation trip. It turned out that the place had a coffee bar with WiFi, so I pulled out my ThinkPad and took care of mail and RSS news while she did her shopping. That kind of connectivity can sometimes make for a happy marriage!

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