Re-organising my site today, I found the first post I wrote for it, just over a year ago. Called ‘My Digital Life‘, it summarises my online history before describing my position as it was then:

In cyber terms, I feel prehistoric since I still rely on a dial-up connection and have little knowledge of precisely what the web has to offer. (…) I am yet to properly organise myself online, working out what the best resources are and learning to spot which ones not to bother with.

It is amazing how much can change in a year. Justified or not, I now regard myself as a web professional. Although I have a lot to learn (as everyone does, in the constantly changing world of cyberspace), I do feel that I have organised myself online, and can discuss with authority the latest online innovations.

It just astonishes me how quickly and irreversibly our lives are being changed by technology. 10 years ago, I didn’t have a mobile phone. Now, I have lost the ability to organise my life without one.

Technology is constantly reinventing us.

Here is an excellent blog I read about living and working online. I used to imagine that, one day, the physical world would no longer be relevant: only the virtual, online world would matter. Perhaps we are closer to that destination than I thought.

It’s no longer necessary to get up and go to work. Work is no longer a place… For some, it might even be an anachronistic concept (this post makes me wonder).

It’s no longer necessary to leave the house at all…. We no longer have to see other people. Every day I read blogs and reports on how to facilitate this – how to “outsource your life“, perhaps.

The illusion dea is that, if we do not have to work, we will gain our liberty. But what will we lose in the process?