Yeah, Of Course

The main thing I've gotten from the posted readings that I've done is a sense of "of course, isn't that obvious?" But I'm not feeling that way because I thought of the ideas, I'm saying it after reading about the military's use of collaboration software to link commanders together and with front-line soldiers. That just makes sense. So a bunch of generals can make better command decisions than a wet-behind-the-ears lieutenant, okay. But the general doesn't get the battlefield perspective... until now. And doesn't that just make sense? Sure "back in the day" the generals were on the battlefields, but no one today would allow General Petraeus to walk down a Baghdad street. Why not allow technology to walk those streets with the troops? Much better perspective without any stretch of the imagination.

Or what about Business Week's article about using collaboration software to link consultants and clients hundreds of miles apart as if they're just in the next room. Duh, that also just makes sense. Use the Internet and PDFs (among other tools) to make sure the project turns out the way the clients want. Even if your client is on another continent. Why not? That just makes sense, right?

I guess one of the only things holding back the implementation or "invention" of these uses of technology was the deployment of high-speed Internet. While the military's system does allow low-bandwidth uses, both systems rely on high-speed Internet connections. I wonder what other common sense products will be unveiled in the future... maybe we'll be the ones thinking it up...