tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311364.post6847970045898665773..comments2024-03-27T21:40:39.130-07:00Comments on Small Biz Thoughts by Karl W. Palachuk: 1,500 Blog Posts . . . And CountingKarl W. Palachukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10854725002875547297noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311364.post-10448435573429829982016-07-29T17:20:10.813-07:002016-07-29T17:20:10.813-07:00Great insights. Thanks, Eric!Great insights. Thanks, Eric!Karl W. Palachukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10854725002875547297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311364.post-90846301893210879282016-07-29T10:33:22.936-07:002016-07-29T10:33:22.936-07:00Great insight Karl. Hey, Just to drive conversati...Great insight Karl. Hey, Just to drive conversation.... I wonder how permanent automobiles, desktops, and phones really are? In the history of human technology, those things have only been around for a blip of time. Maybe we are only 20 years away from implants that take calls and contacts that show digital images right on our eyeballs. Maybe only 10 years? Even if it is 30 or 40 years, that will still be in my lifetime. Those 2 technologies (or similar) could replace desktops and phones. <br /><br />What I always find fascinating is how young our whole industry is. I mean, desktops were invented in the 80s! They are technically millenials. :)<br /><br />And think about that. This whole industry, if you start at Desktops, is actually younger than most of the Owners we sell to. So how can they be expected to appreciate what it can do for them, how it can hurt them, and why it is important. <br /><br />In fact, as IT Service Providers, we spend most our time fixing things, or attempting to prevent breakdowns. Very little time is spent helping the Owner or CEO use technology as a lever to get bigger results.<br /><br />If Guns were the great equalizer when they were invented. Imagine if all people did was hire gun smiths to clean them so they could shoot targets?!<br /><br />Ethics aside, imagine if 99% of people only used guns (computers) for daily plinking, and never used them to get a leg up on competitors, increase efficiency, or protect their asset? Would the USA even exist?<br /><br />On top of that computers (aka transistors) are the first invention that can be used to improve themselves!<br /><br />I often feel when I'm talking to an Owner about how we can leverage technology, that it's like trying to explain to people in the early 90s why cell phones are so handy, and they just say ‘but there's a pay phone on every corner!’ Today, our phones cost more than a laptop and we replace them every 2 years!<br /><br />I heard a saying somewhere... "The brain doesn't register what the eyes have not prepared it to see and the ears have not prepared it to hear.”<br /><br />I’m still looking for an analogy that illustrates how fast reality is really changing. I mean, TODAY, we have Dick Tracy Watches, self-driving cars, and private space flight. Tomorrow we will have asteroid mining, worldwide internet even in the desert (for free), and technology that can read minds. And right now, my children are the first generation that will have everything they do on the internet (which is nearly everything they do), permanently recorded forever.<br /><br />Looking back, probably the first guy that invented fire, 50% the tribe hated him and 50% the tribe loved him. And then when he offered to sell the technology, 99% of the tribe hated him. That is Uber.<br />Today , you have a guy, who implemented fire, made a Billion $, and then just gave away all the fire technology. That is Elon Musk.<br /><br />Most people didn’t see Tesla, Uber, or Airbnb happening, because they didn’t want to.<br />Eric Adkinshttp://www.adkinstech.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311364.post-89735206260833963432016-07-20T09:20:41.687-07:002016-07-20T09:20:41.687-07:00Congratulations on ten years and 1500 blog posts K...Congratulations on ten years and 1500 blog posts Karl! I appreciate all the valuable info and opinion you've shared over the years. Thank you! Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16553674674771338454noreply@blogger.com