I am sitting at an airport in the American Airlines Admiral club. I just wanted you to have the picture in your head so you understand where I am coming from. I am getting more work done here than I do from about anywhere else. It Is Friday night around 8:30 and most intelligent well-rounded people are home doing something for fun – or at least relaxing. As luck would have it, I am still trying to get home. I am about to share some thoughts with this blog and it will go out to thousands of people with the touch of a button in just a few minutes. You are reading it from who knows where, possibly on a mobile device, or your laptop. It cost me nothing to send it to you, and it costs nothing for you to access this. While I am writing this, I have a number of people having conversations with me.

Seriously, my daughter just texted me, I have a client emailing me, and a speakers bureau is asking me for information for a speaking prospect they are working with. Money never sleeps baby, money never sleeps. One of my books just went live in the iBooks store and I loaded it on my iPad. I also emailed it a client and he loaded it on his iPad as well. I can send a link out on Twitter if I want and thousands of people will have the ability to download it in a few clicks – that will cost me nothing to do as well. They could have the book and be reading it within minutes of me thinking to send the link. Apple will not pay me instantly though, they will wait and send a statement sometime much later. Some things get faster, but getting paid never seems to. I guess that is not really a technology problem.

I am listening to digital music on expensive noise cancelling headphones and it sounds great – I cannot hear anyone else around me. I love it. I am accessing the Internet through a USB AT&T device because I don’t want to pay for the daily fee at the airport. I have my iPhone, and iPad sitting right next to my MacBook Pro as I write this. Both of them are connected to the Internet as well in case I need to know who or what is near me. My phone is tracking my flight, which is late, so I know when to head to the gate. If I happen to hear a song I like on Internet radio – which allows me to listen to music from all over the world, I can download it in an instant as well. Hang on, I just had to answer a client question about a date for a webinar next week. OK, good to go now…

I am plugged in, hooked up, connected, directed, and productive. I have the power to do magic things, things that could not be done ten years ago. I can mainline all this technology at will and orchestrate my career, my life, my fun. I have the power of technology and it is not enough. I want more, I want it faster, I want it cheaper. I see the vision now. Real time gratification, always-on business, instant information and power exploding through my mind and my fingers. I need more, and I need it now. Who cares if the flight is late, I can get more things done. I can communicate with more people, accomplish a few more things, and hear a few more tunes. I have the power sitting right here – I am wired.

Do you understand what is at our disposal? The devices, the software, the cloud, and the connected people. We have the power that we never had before and it is intoxicating. Money never sleeps my friends…

Scott Klososky
Scott@klososky.com