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The fast pace of the tech (r)evolution

Keytoe22 juli 2014Gemiddelde leestijd: 1 minuut

Thierry is working as a digital strategist at our partner Dallas in Belgium (Antwerp). He’s helping clients such as Suzuki, WPG, Friesland Campina Debic, Eneco, Xerius, Greenpeace with his knowledge and expertise to survive in the ever changing digital universe.

How many of you… regularly – if not multiple times a day – check websites such as Mashable, Techcrunch, TNW, Wired, Kickstarter etc? As a digital strategist, these websites are basically my gates to the internet. I browse them when I wake up to see which new stories I might have missed, I check them when I’m waiting for the train – and I’m a Belgian so I actually wait A LOT on trains – and at work their feeds constantly draw my attention.

It’s the constant stream of what’s happening out there. It’s a sneek preview of what’s about to happen. To quote Muppets Lab’s Dr. Bunsen Honeydew famous words: The future is being made today. In this constant stream of news updates, we often forget how fast this is all going. When the new iPhone 6 will be launched, we’ll probably be disappointed. We’ll have an “yeah-android-has-something-similar”-discussion and all go #nagging on twitter. But we do forget the incredible (r)evolution we’re witnessing every single second.

Yes, I hear you: “What’s that twentysomething-year-old being all nostalgic about?”. I stumbled upon this video of Steve Jobs, unveiling the first iPhone and its spectacular features. See how the crowd goes ‘loco’ when Steve Jobs demonstrates the landscape mode, the ‘pinching’ and the ‘zoom in’. This video shows us ‘2007’.

 

In those 7 years, we evolved rapidly. We can now 3D print prosthetics ( and maybe soon –burrito’s? ).