Information age inspiration...

Mark Webber was on the receiving of the worst kind of result yesterday when he crashed out of a soggy Grand Prix in South Korea.

Raced in appalling conditions on a track with a surface laid barely 10 days before the race, the field tailed the pace car for what seemed like hours to justify Bernie's deal to race in monsoon season. Fully half the field left the track, spinning and crashing their way out of the event.

Once again Fernando Alonso showed why he is the class of this field. He took the race by the throat and drove with controlled aggression to register his fifth win of the season, and a worthy and convincing win it was. Lewis Hamilton chased hard all the way but could not close the gap and backed off at the end to conserve his car for second place.

I watched an Italian television channel online, from my computer terminal in Australia. Can't speak Italian mind you, try as I might, keeping pace with the pro's was beyond me. But it was fun listening in and matching the commentary to the action.

It did make me think what an incredible age we live in too. In fact, as I write this, I am listening to a lovely song - Crying - by female duo Mad Violet playing on my You tube channel, typing on a blog that is capable of spanning the globe in seconds, having just described watching a Formula One race from Korea - Live - broadcast from Italy. All acheived in HD colour, in micro second synchronicity. Fantastic.


As a youngster growing up in the sixties I never dreamed of such possibilities. Black and white TV, cranky phone systems, transistor radio's just overtaking valves, 45 rpm records, not a cell phone in sight. Yet they are common place now. As an early user of mobile phone technology I was subject to some unusual taunts, but where would we be now without them? Who doesn't have one, or two? and what will the future hold for technological improvements? I can't give away my not so old box tv, everyone has one or more LCD/LED/Plasma giant wall mounted surround sound entertainment systems now. All driven by the world's access to the world wide web via the ubiquitous computer. Haven't we all got one of them now?

I firmly believe I- Commerce will explode as people take advantage of the ease of purchasing everything they need on line and having it delivered to their door. Currently the delay is about a day, or at times, two, but just wait until the demand increases to drive that back to a day, then hours, then an hour. Traditional industries will perish and new entrepreneurs will emerge on the back of the new technologies. Jobs will disolve and I-Commerce will emerge as a major source of income for those quick enough to get in at this early stage.

A friend of mine is busy on a nightly basis chasing women on line, who are just as busy chasing back. You can talk on line for free with Skype and other providers allowing free, instant calling around the world. Musicians are now releasing straight to the web and movies are online in hours, sounding the death knell of the old Video store.

This Internet driven change in our lives see the old technology of Newspapers dying, struggling under the weight of their own infrastructure, in much the same way as some of the major shopping chains and supermarkets are buckling and will undoubtedly similarly decline in the future. The current leaders are blissfully, or scornfully, unaware and unmoved by the I-Commerce revolution that is eroding their very foundations. Sure they all have a web site, but they are only paying lip service to the possibilites.

The Information age is here, Rupert Murdoch has accepted it at last but has been woefully slow to close the gates before the horses have bolted.Bernie Ecclestone, the F1 supremo, spotted the possibilites way back in the 90's but was years ahead of the technology available at the time. He has struggled to claw back the ground lost ever since abandoning the project after a two year trial. The Internet age is still in it's infancy, can you see where this may end up? Wow, are we in for a ride and a half.


If you would like to know about a fantastic, innovative and very lucrative I-Commerce income generating opportunity I recently became involved with, then give me a call. It will be the best thing you do for yourself today.

Think Long and Prosper
Dan