My technological evolution in 2 days

Once at my workplace we were rewarded with a free paper-based calendar (what a well-deserved bonus). To my own surprise, I refused the gift. I am modernizing myself. The next day with colossal excitement and a bunch of questions, I was visiting an electronic, “Beep and Gadgets”, exhibition. To my own unexpected astonishment, I felt geeky, but cool! What a progress!

 I started to really understand that knowledge of high tech and the skills to take advantage of it, is an important a factor to succeed in your career. For example, other departments, like finance, design, you name it, are more dependent of abilities within IT. Therefore, following the technological development with the right speed is critical for your own career development and for boosting your intelligence. It definitely gives more value to your skills when you are really good and fast with high tech. Therefore, I decided that it would be advantageous for me to be swift with beeps and gadgets.

Beeps and gadgets are not only nuts and bolts, gaming, fast social updating, virtual dating, but it’s a whole world of opportunities in your pocket. If you are really fast with following high tech progress, there are opportunities to explore, and not only for men (who were the majority on the exhibition), but also for women.

For example, in the fair I was introduced to a relatively new shopping concept still under development: a virtual dressing room (even there I found something that is REALLY the area of my interest- can I be more sophisticated?). Adapting the 3D software and a web cam, it allows the online shopper to try on a dress before buying it.

On this stage of progress by the Virtual Dressing Room (not sure whether it’s the name of a company, or a concept), this is how the virtual dress looked on me:

And the company is determined to reach these results:

I believe there is a market for the concept. However, knowing me, there is a darker side to it. Think how many dresses you can buy, should it be so easy and fun to try it on. And what if there were an app, which, based on your historical behavior and preferences, could find and suggest a new perfect dress- while both you and your phone are asleep. And the next morning, you would be looking forward to wake up to check out your new outfit. (Actually, if such an app, knew my wardrobe, and could suggest what I have to wear that particular day, it can save me hours in the morning).

Back to more serious matters. My main observation from the fair is that being swift with high tech soon will be one of the most important factors for personal success.  I am sure my generation wouldn’t want to be less sophisticated and less speedy than those boys in 10 years time.

And one day they will step into business life. I am just imagining how smart and fast they will be by that time. They will be dictating us how hasty we have to adapt the new high tech. At least we have to be prepared for that.

Personally, that day I fell in love with Samsung Galaxy Note tablet and its magical pen. This will be my next gadget. As their logo predicts, I am going be more creative, faster, sharper, and more sophisticated.

 So, since I am on the technological modernization phase of my life, I need a plan for how I will hop on the wagon and increase the speed of adapting to new technology and explore its opportunities. So there is my action plan. I also hope it will motivate somebody else to step into wild technological world:

1.       Find a gadget within a technological area that could interest you, while still being a little challenging, (for example half-professional cameras.)

2.       Follow the market development within that area.

3.       Explore your creativity while using it.

4.       Challenge the speed of working with it.

5.       Be pro-active and integrate the tool at your work.

6.       Share your findings with a geek- friend.

So, even if it can be boring for chicks…

…it can certainly be fun for geeks:

And it’s much more fun when…