Communication Breakdown

I'm a boomer. Not the fun got to experience Woodstock boomer. Not the one Dennis Hopper is talking to on commercials. I'm about ten years too late for all that. Still I started in the business world when sales orders came through the mail, compiling data for the annual sales meeting took three weeks and a secretary typed my letters.

I really liked the idea of futuristic technology. You know, a phone in my car, handheld devices that could hold twenty pages of information, watching live video on my computer.

The next twenty-five years have changed business in ways no one could really fathom. Gathering data is an every day possibility and gathering it for an annual meeting takes very little time. I long ago lost my secretary. And the phone? It keeps everyone available 24/7. Yahoo.

I am caught in the social networking area because most of my friends from high school and college haven't discovered Facebook yet so I am not having as much fun as other, younger people. It's incredibly important to integrate this knowledge in order to help my business succeed. I know that even as I believe it to be hard.

So when I look at the presidential candidates from the very narrow view of technology and understanding how business uses it for success I have two choices.

The person who raised millions using the internet.
The person who can't use a computer at all.

I wish it was a harder decision.