Technology is changing its look. The spring/summer
2021 collection has abandoned its metallic, shiny
clothes in favour of a cosier look. And it’s not just a
passing fad. It’s driven by people.Cast your mind back to the mid-00s. Remember the
pixel wars? An entire planet of consumers were being
lured into buying a camera because the sensor had more
pixels than the one next to it. Five megapixels turned to 10,
20, 30 before anyone so much as mentioned the actual
quality of the pictures (it turned out the image noise from
packing ever more millions of pixels on to a tiny sensor
was gradually reducing overall image standards, not the
other way around).
And we haven’t given up. I venture in 10 years we’ll all
be reminiscing about when internet connections were
measured in speed (not uptime, latency, jitter, packet
loss, security, not ISP customer service). But times are
changing. I’ve been particularly heartened recently
talking to CIOs, CTOs and CDOs about the increasingly
important role of people and culture versus numerical
technological advantage.
It turns out you can’t do one without the other, and
once the technological seesaw passes the point where
numbers really matter, people become the heavier side
of the equation. The next chapter is not about what the
technology can do for us, but about what we can do with
the technology. That’s a fashion we should all get behind.We hope you enjoy the issue.PADDY SMITH
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