History is littered with technologies that failed to live up to their marketing hype. Think the not-so-popular Ford Edsel, ‘New Coke’, or in more recent times clunky PDAs, Windows Vista and Google Glass. And then there were the spectacular successes: the original Apple Mac, laser printers, World Wide Web, smartphones, GPS, the Cloud, and so many other technologies that became mainstream and continue to anchor business productivity and efficiency today.
As I write this New Zealand is wrapping up Techweek – an annual festival of innovation, largely directed at the business sector – and it’s obvious that the digital transformation of business is about to enter (some will say it has already entered) a whole new level of sophistication.
At both a breakfast event NZBusiness attended, hosted by Datacom, and…