The Danger of Being Too Connected

Monday, 09. 14. 2009  –  Category: Dial611

As a society, we are more connected than we have ever been. With social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook reaching millions of Americans, we have instant access to data. Soon, as I discussed in my previous article, that access will be mobile—making us experts anywhere, anytime. But is all of this connectivity worthwhile?  Do we really need to know each piece of breaking news as it happens?

More importantly, what are we trading away for this instant access?

Deteriorating Interpersonal Communication: Let’s face it–when faced with talking with someone or sending them a message (whether via text, tweets, postings or e-mail), we increasingly choose the latter. And while we like to rationalize that it is out of politeness so as to not intrude, the result is…

The Coming Three Screen Convergence

Monday, 07. 27. 2009  –  Category: Enversa Companies

“The times, oh they are a changing,” sang Bob Dylan decades ago as the 60s ushered in all kinds of radical new changes. One of the most radical of these changes was the shift in telecommunication technology, which eventually evolved into that vast entity of webs and tubes known colloquially as the “Internet”. The Internet has caused a major upheaval in the way that the consumers, media outlets, and people everywhere communicate. And according to Andrew Lack, the former president of NBC News, it’s going to keep changing – and for the better.

Today is the era of Google, of YouTube, of Facebook and of Twitter; an age in which all the consumer dictates a vast majority of the content, rather than being spoon-fed stories, articles and…