Petabyte Man is the headline

[Doyle Saylor <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
The Freight service person carries a mobile device, the cop has their dash
board display, but the office worker sits at a desk.  How unfair.  In big
Enterprises their servers are now holding a petabyte of information.   For
every public web site there are 500 private web sites.  Dynamic sites with
huge databases.

Standard issue for the office worker is the cellphone, and perhaps for the
supe a blackberry, or pda.  The ubiquitous picture badge.  Mine doesn't have
my name on it.  Just a picture ma'am.  Silos is a funny little jargon about
the lack of communication between groups.  So a new drive to make Enterprise
Communities keeps cropping up.

We talk about at work how the rule based work goes to India, but the face to
face work stays home.  Who is that face to face worker?  It's the business
object that gets in your face.  You know the thing that is local in your
space.  Not the under paid worker in India, the glop of food, the massage in
the seedy sex shop, the cop shooting a disabled man, all the wonders of work
in George Bush's America.

So lots of work is mobile.  I mean the consumer moves instead of the desk
bound big Enterprise work glop.  I think it would be nice to be a mobile sex
worker.  They get paid well I hear, but I am old and unappealing.  Oh well
lets talk high technology.

A cell phone is a dead end as it is.  Convergence of tools means when we
walk around we have our computing tools with us.  The interface can be built
so that instead of sitting across the aisle in cube farm, that person enters
the 'enter' face with me.  A new etiquette has to emerge from that.  Where
do I put my desk top files.  How do you reach for something.  You put your
voice stream over there and draw lines to attach it to my waste basket and
my love notes stroke as well as speak.  Maybe I can pick up a file and put
it in the Entrance to my cube so that as I walk into my cube a little star
starts to glow and as I sit down it glides down in front of me and expands
to be the common document.

The common document is a street where all these people do business.  I'm
going through the street doing things to the location to add life and
interest to it.  Today I am working with my group.  There are about 10,000
of us.  We are busy all over the street building the experience of the
street.   Every surface has some attention.  A fancy beautiful feminine
object is there, a masculine sport object there.  Color and feel everywhere.
A hive of activity because the computing communications have altered the
landscape.  Business has to be able to manage the resources to put
information into every location.  Information has become 99% percent of
every business transaction.  Everywhere all the time a vast network of
meaning for everything.

That's my beat face to face with a noir world of information.
thanks,
Doyle