Welcome to The Vanishing Point.
This blog is dedicated to the rapid convergence of several aspects of the IT world:
- Personal vs ‘Business’ use of information technology
- Online vs disconnected use
- Asynchronous (e.g. email) vs synchronous (e.g. instant messaging)
As time goes on, many of these lines – which previously were quite clear – are becoming blurred. At some point in the future – the Vanishing Point – such distinctions will disappear altogether. Or, if not disappear, then become so blurred that people (let’s try to stop calling them ‘users’) are almost unaware of them.
The blog will cover not just the trends in abstract, but also those technologies and technology-related stories that are contributing to this change. While personal preferences are inevitable, all reasonable efforts will be made to remain agnostic in terms of software companies. There are many players in this game: big and small, lumbering and nimble, revolutionary and evolutionary, cool and uncool, shallow and deep, solid and flaky … all of them have their part to play in this unfolding story.
We do, indeed, live in interesting times.
