Comments on: Is 2008 the new 1998? http://mcguireslaw.com/2008/08/28/is-2008-the-new-1998/ The value of any product or service increases with its mobility. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gerald Buckley http://mcguireslaw.com/2008/08/28/is-2008-the-new-1998/#comment-496 Gerald Buckley Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:48:40 +0000 http://mcguireslaw.com/2008/08/28/is-2008-the-new-1998/#comment-496 Russ, Wouldn't it be cool if the impact of the decade is more social than technological? What if 2018 saw us in a largely untethered shift? Working from anywhere (air, car, lawn) was common place with respectable bandwidth, security layers and, of course, apps to make the social disconnect less onerous. Given the expense of fuel today and likely tomorrow... Wouldn't it be cool if we could remove the physical gotta-be-there component (ala 4-hour work week or energy policy or whatever)? I'd LOVE to see that eventuality sooner rather than later. Russ, Wouldn’t it be cool if the impact of the decade is more social than technological? What if 2018 saw us in a largely untethered shift? Working from anywhere (air, car, lawn) was common place with respectable bandwidth, security layers and, of course, apps to make the social disconnect less onerous.

Given the expense of fuel today and likely tomorrow… Wouldn’t it be cool if we could remove the physical gotta-be-there component (ala 4-hour work week or energy policy or whatever)?

I’d LOVE to see that eventuality sooner rather than later.

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