My friend Ben was IM’ing with me not long ago. Midway through the conversation, he asked,
Where are you now?
I told him I was in Hong Kong and asked him in kind, wondering if he was in the Bay area, Vancouver, Taipei or elsewhere. It then occurred to me that a few years ago, that question would normally be answered with “at home”, “in the office” or at times, “at a coffee shop”.
I remember that conversation, and as we all follow our (more and more) global endeavours, it’s going to be a question that becomes increasingly necessary (or perhaps UNnecessary). Kind of like that IBM commercial from a long time ago, where they were all over the world and just chatting with each other (with little eye-patch screens and pervasive computing devices).
Stay tuned for more city/country/continent hopping!
Posted by Ben on 11 March 2005 @ 10am
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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Product manager at Twitter, former Director of User Experience at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.
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