Is IT fueling the rat race? Is the idea of ‘personal touch’ in service a thing of the past? I believe the majority of people would opt for a world without personal interaction, enabling the ultimate form of efficiency, but at what cost?
I left school with A-levels in Spanish, French, Art and English Literature. My education was far from vocational. Purely by chance I ended up working for IBM and found myself in the IT industry. The technology itself, I have come to learn, the significance of business impact of it, has become a fascination. From the simple, to the extraordinary. Christmas shopping on-line, with products shipping from Thailand to the US, to supercomputing developing cures to cancer. I often question what the future holds, we seem to be eliminating jobs everywhere based on the fact of cost and efficiency. From a business perspective, it makes perfect sense, but where are the limits?
About Me
- Aoife
- I started my career in IT, having studied Spanish and French, working for IBM. My career began with a 2 year stint in Dublin, looking after Storage and System X. I now run the IBM side of Transputec Computers business. I have chosen to communicate with you via, what is now, my first ever blog.
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For me as an individual, exercise is one of my main hobbies. I like challenging myself, by taking on different types of exercise and seeing how long it takes my body to adjust to it. For Christmas I am hoping to get a GPS running watch. The advances in technology means I can track exactly how far I run, my heart rate, my pace and more. Measurements like these are crucial to improving performance. But what about when technology takes it a step too far?- Power plates- They’ve probably in the public eye for 18 months now and are starting to get more publicity thanks to the likes of Madonna claiming she uses them to tone. Essentially they enable you to stretch or hold a pose whilst the body is forced to perform reflexive muscle actions, multiple times per second, resulting in 15 minutes of ‘exercise’ being the equivalent to hours of traditional cardio training. Some would say this is great, we’ve all got the chance to appear healthier and fit it into our coffee breaks. However correct me if I’m wrong but this completely defeats the object of exercise, what happened to the good old fashioned ‘healthy body, healthy mind’?
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