Lost Contact with the Outside World, Part 2

I don't normally spend a lot of time thinking about the future. I know roughly where I'm trying to get to, and sometimes that requires radical changes, but on the whole, I spend more time looking at each footstep, knowing that the overall direction is towards the right mountain top.

Recently, however, two College assignments have me forced to think more specifically about the future. One asked us to look at different ways of accessing the Web in public urban areas (street kiosks, wi-fi zones in cafes etc), and draw our conclusions about how such access will change over the next twelve months when we pop out into the world as fully-fledged designers.

It's easy to forget just how much and quickly access to the Web has changed over the last ten years, so my conclusions aren't as radical as they first appeared. In fact, I'm only putting together things that are already well documented, my sources being mainly the Guardian's technology pages and blog and its media section. This post is in danger of becoming too long, so I will leave you to think about this until tomorrow.

The other assignment asked us to consider how we, individually, will use our Foundation Degrees. I'm reasonably confident about knowing which areas I want to specialise in, which areas I need to improve, and which I want to abandon as fast as possible. Oh dear, I can feel this developing into a separate post as well. This is turning into a major statement rather than a throw-away blog entry. Until tomorrow, then...