Why are we suffering from stress and long hours working when digital technology was supposed to bring us a life of leisure? This was the question being answered by a line-up of speakers at Innovation Birmingham last week. The occasion was the launch of the new book “Conquering Digital Overload”. Five of the contributors to…
Where did the word ‘digital’ come from, anyway? Why is it here now? ‘Digital’ has seemingly become a meme (again?) – an idea spreading far from its origins. While the word started out in the mid-17th century, it’s evolved from referring to digits, i.e., fingers, to numerical digits, entering the 20th century through the radio…
The rise of the digital economy is having a huge negative impact on your employees. Those who say that ‘it’s always been like this’ with high demands on employees, are fooling themselves – and ensuring, by ignoring the reality, that their companies lose out hugely in the process. The tyranny of ‘always on’ smartphones and…
A principal feature of the digital age is that as people use more digital technology to get their work done, that technology is doing increasing amounts of work both automatically and alongside the work humans are doing. The advance of technology-enabled digital work has evolved to such a point that society is experiencing wrenching change.…