This Small World

We take so much for granted, we digital citizens. But every so often I stop to think of the 'amazingness' of it all. Here's an example of what I mean:

It's a small worldI've just come back from the Naace 2010 conference in England where I met up with a Canadian fellow, Michael Furdyk, co-founder of Taking IT Global. I first met Michael at the ICTLT 2010 Conference in Singapore a couple of weeks ago.

He happens to know someone called Derek Wenmoth, from New Zealand, whom Elaine and I had dinner with on Friday night. He was in Singapore too, and I first 'met' him by being introduced to him by Sharon Peters, a Canadian Blogger.

If my memory serves me well, Sharon introduced herself to me after hearing of a book I was on, through Jennifer Wagner, an American educator.

And I think that Jennifer and I got to know each other through the blogosphere after I'd published a free book about Web 2.0, Coming of Age, that feaured, amongst other writers, David Warlick, who also lives in the USA.

Who could have predicted 15 years ago that anything like this would ever happen?

Comments

[Karl Goddard]

bang on post! had similar moment a few months ago, sat in bath with iPhone made call, tweeted, checked mail and viewed youtube video, from a device barely bigger than a credit card. If we'd said that would be reality now, 16 years ago people would've laughed aloud.

it's reading post like yours and moments like the one I had that makes me truly thankful I have the best job in world!

[Terry Freedman]

Thx for commenting, Karl. Yes, device size is another thing. The amount of connectedness we have these days is pretty mind-blowing. I barely touched on in my article about Web 2.0 and technical factors (http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2010/3/19/why-schools-cannot-ignore-web-20-technical-factors.html )
Cheers