No matter that we carry little slabs of coms tech around in our pockets that make the communicators in the original Star Trek look like something out of a steampunk fantasy.

In a great IT industry irony, enterprise social networking (ESN) software, designed to boost interaction and collaboration, is often ignored by users and ends up forgotten like the proverbial ghost town with rolling tumbleweeds.

Ich liebe sie, die Theoretiker. Jetzt haben sie wieder zugeschlagen und ein Manifest an die virtuelle Wand geschlagen. Manifest, das hört sich nach Luthers Thesen an, nach Revolution und nach unumstößlich, nach Fortschritt und Zukunft. Und auch nach: guter PR. Zur Diskussion will man anregen, eine Debatte zum neuen Arbeiten entfachen. Kritisch darf, soll es sein. Nun bin ich eigentlich alles andere als „Old School“ – und dennoch sehe ich dieses neue Arbeiten nicht nur euphorisch.

In a recent survey, ISACA found that 48 percent of the IT professionals surveyed believe that, for consumers, the benefit of the Internet of Things outweighs the risk. But do they really understand the kind of risks the IoT might pose?

The term 'craft' when applied to developing technical skills, has, it seems, fallen out of use over the past few decades. It's a shame as the term embodies so much of what we do in our industry; more than simply just another word to describe “occupation,” it also means “calling,” “profession”, “skill,” and even “artistry.” These are terms that a great many of us see as synonymous with what we choose to do for a living.