eBusy Organisations

Since the invention of the Internet, the World Wide Web and Netscape's 'browser', followed by a trillion dollar investment in fiber-optic cable, resulting in broadband and wireless, businesses have transformed the way they function. Going 'global' is no longer such a challenge for corporations. Oversees communication is now just a formality for Multi-National Corporations (MNCs).

Companies use software applications such as Skype to conduct interviews and video conference calls. Businessmen on different sides of the planet can edit live documents online, using new 'cloud-computing' applications like GoogleDocs. However, as Damien McCoy (Cisco Systems) says "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product". These sites can analyse our online activity, so they can sell our preferences/demographics to marketers. I would be wary of the dangers of fraud and intellectual property theft when openly storing data online.

Wang 2200

In 1978, Owen McDonough & Associates were the first practice in Galway to purchase a computer (Wang 2200). It cost £13,500 (€60,000 - 2012). Dell PCs are now used, which cost a fraction of the price. In 1981, at the largest computing trade show in the US (Comdex), Dell produced a computer that was twice as fast as computing giant IBM. Reporters asked Michael Dell why there was need for a computer that fast. However, now we use similar amounts of power for many children's toys! Advances in technology and reduction in cost, globally, have allowed us to become more eBusy, but eveidently if you want to get ahead in the eBusiness world, it comes at a cost, and often one that might not pay off.

REFERENCES

Friedman, Thomas - 'The World is Flat' (2005)