information technology professionals have been working the day-to-day and not thinking about what’s next. Leadership within Fortune 500 companies are likely to believe their information technology leadership is thinking about and preparing for what’s next, but they’re playing traffic cop for the day-to-day, hoping leadership at the big technology companies are doing the heavy thinking and preparing, when they’re not.
Who’s running the show? Who’s thinking about what’s next? Truth be told, no one.
When you didn’t earn it and jumped on the project after the ideation phase was completed, after the design phase was completed, and all that’s left for you to do is implement, it’s business as usual.
Read MoreWe’ve been barreling through tech-space, traveling at light speed, gobbling data like there’s no tomorrow, launching startups faster and faster everyday, on our way towards our “Big Tech” employer, ever since that day in September 2000, when Padraic McFreen launched his tech startup, MiVu.
Read MoreJust 80 days after the launch of Padraic McFreen’s startup, MiVu, the industry is now speaking his language — literally discussing “access networks” (words exclusive to MiVu)— and the Last Mile has suddenly become “mission critical.” Could it have anything to do with Bell Labs’ call into IEEE about MiVu?
Read MoreWe were set out on the road speeding towards digital transformation the moment Padraic McFreen stepped into the doors of Lucent Technologies, leading to that now infamous Bell Labs “IEEE call for interest” in MiVu’s 21st Century Access Network, which Bell Labs technically defined for IEEE as “Ethernet in the Last Mile.”
Read MoreWell my dear reader, now you know. U-verse is Padraic McFreen’s Multiservice internet Virtual Universe. Not to worry, we’ll delve deep into all of the networks — yes, even your favorite ones too.
Read MoreMiVu Touchscreen Application Tablet Prototype, 4Q/2000. Apple modeled iPhone from MiVu Tablet
Read MorePadraic McFreen remembers one of the telco network gurus exclaiming during one of many conference calls, “we’re a telco network company not an information and entertainment Internet network company…we don’t even know what an Internet network is…customers dial into the Internet just fine.”
Read MoreOver the next “40 Days”, this author will disclose the heretofore hidden Black History behind all things digital, share a minor fraction of the thoughts, ideas, challenges, disappointments and failures that all contributed to the design of what we now refer to as the Internet Industry.
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