Impact of the IT Industry on society

Have we considered the impact of IT on woman, the house-bound or the elderly?

There are 20% more dot com companies started up by women than men last year.  Why?  Is this an opportunity that woman see as an advantage?  It cannot just be the advantage of working from home.  Is it that they are able to see what is marketable and seize that the opportunity.  After all 50% of the market is going to be female.  Woman have not been able to break the glass ceiling of established traditional  businesses but by starting their own business they can be at the top.

By having access to IT facilities the world in open to us.

Blogging

So Blogging is an electronic diary - public on the world wide web.

It allows people to publish, not just their thoughts, but to write an electronic newspaper or even a book.  But the real benefit has to come from the comments that are added to the blog. 

Sharing thoughts and building on arguments allows genuine discussion between knowledgeable people.  Then again it allows random rambling and discussion between strangers who will never met...so it does have its ups and downs.

Working in the IT Industry

How many roles exist in the IT industry?

Since the late 1970's new roles have appeared every year.  It use to be a choice of whether you wanted to be a programmer or an operator.  What was your aptitude?  Now the route to the top takes many turns and new branches appear every six months.

So what is the most beneficial characteristic?  Flexibility!