So I was sorting out the pictures on my phone the other day, and I happened to come upon this one.
It made me smile.
Has it been more than half a year since we sat at the Starbucks outlet for a casual chat with our tech developer who had swung into town from Israel via Thailand for a C-suite level meeting with one of our financial institutions?
But pictorial documentation cannot lie, and right there, next to the iced black and the green tea latte, sits the Starbucks Thanksgiving drink of 2017. What it precisely is, or was, I can't remember, but there was peppermint. There definitely was peppermint.
It was great conversation, speaking with each other, just talking about stuff. After all, the serious stuff had been discussed in the morning prior, and it was out of our hands for now.
Future tech is an interesting thing. It can swing either way, but if you know what it means to companies, organizations and institutions, if you know how far the tech can go and what it can do, you won't look lightly upon it.
Because, far from augmented reality and virtual reality being just another gaming device or a historical learning experience, this is a tech that puts simulations and real-time reactions on the record, yet creates situations that would otherwise have serious consequences in real life. I can't say for sure the complete picture- I leave it to the right people for that- but let's just say that loss minimality is always key, and maybe VR, and AR does just that.
Anyway, this was a meeting that warranted the certified expertise of a developer who wasn't all cock and bull but who knew his programming, his modelling and rendering, his app development, his machine-learning and his artificial intelligence. This was a meeting that needed the capabilities of someone who cut no slack but met the requirements of the clientele without compromising on its applications. Anyone who has done a demo store layout for a conglomerate knows his s***.
Let's just say that it was a cool meeting on both sides that covered multiple areas, with discussions bordering on what said tech applications could be best for versus what was most likely required. It was candid, genuine and also, business-like. And I appreciated the fact that the reps respected the technology. As futuristic as it seems, as boggling as it can be, having leaders and honchos who respect technology and try figuring out solutions with it can truly make the world a much better place. :)
That's as critical as it goes, especially for any tech-related discussion, because more annoying than facing off people in execution meetings, are facing off people who brag as if they designed the tech but in fact barely skim the surface and are not keen on any solutions at all.
It made me smile.
Has it been more than half a year since we sat at the Starbucks outlet for a casual chat with our tech developer who had swung into town from Israel via Thailand for a C-suite level meeting with one of our financial institutions?
But pictorial documentation cannot lie, and right there, next to the iced black and the green tea latte, sits the Starbucks Thanksgiving drink of 2017. What it precisely is, or was, I can't remember, but there was peppermint. There definitely was peppermint.
It was great conversation, speaking with each other, just talking about stuff. After all, the serious stuff had been discussed in the morning prior, and it was out of our hands for now.
Future tech is an interesting thing. It can swing either way, but if you know what it means to companies, organizations and institutions, if you know how far the tech can go and what it can do, you won't look lightly upon it.
Because, far from augmented reality and virtual reality being just another gaming device or a historical learning experience, this is a tech that puts simulations and real-time reactions on the record, yet creates situations that would otherwise have serious consequences in real life. I can't say for sure the complete picture- I leave it to the right people for that- but let's just say that loss minimality is always key, and maybe VR, and AR does just that.
Anyway, this was a meeting that warranted the certified expertise of a developer who wasn't all cock and bull but who knew his programming, his modelling and rendering, his app development, his machine-learning and his artificial intelligence. This was a meeting that needed the capabilities of someone who cut no slack but met the requirements of the clientele without compromising on its applications. Anyone who has done a demo store layout for a conglomerate knows his s***.
Let's just say that it was a cool meeting on both sides that covered multiple areas, with discussions bordering on what said tech applications could be best for versus what was most likely required. It was candid, genuine and also, business-like. And I appreciated the fact that the reps respected the technology. As futuristic as it seems, as boggling as it can be, having leaders and honchos who respect technology and try figuring out solutions with it can truly make the world a much better place. :)
That's as critical as it goes, especially for any tech-related discussion, because more annoying than facing off people in execution meetings, are facing off people who brag as if they designed the tech but in fact barely skim the surface and are not keen on any solutions at all.