A guest post from Ali Hale for Productive Flourishing
Think back twelve years: 1999, the end of the last century. What did your life look like then?
I’m guessing it was pretty different from your life today.
In 1999, I was fourteen. We’d had dial-up internet at home for a year or so, a few of my friends were getting mobile phones, and I was attempting my first novel.
In 2011, I’ve got a super-fast broadband connection, I make my living online (Skype, WordPress and Gmail all being essential parts of my day), I’ve got a smart phone, and I’m still writing novels.
The pace of technological progress, in little more than a decade, is just astounding. The practical differences that it makes in our lives are as if the printing press, the telephone and... More...
