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#320 – EMAIL @50 YEARS – BLESSING OR RISK – MALCOLM PEART

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Email is 50 this year…its Golden Anniversary!  It ‘happened’ in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson, the late computer engineer and first user, sent a transmission to himself utilising two independent computers…a revolutionary innovation at the time.  The content of that primordial message is long forgotten and the same may also be the fate of many of the ~300 billion emails that are sent almost every day by the estimated 4 billion users around the world.  Communication is said to bring us together or set us apart and email is no different. Continue reading →

#316 – INFORMATION UNDERLOAD: DEPRIVATION OR ATTENTION DEFICIENCY – MALCOLM PEART

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We obtain information through learning to become, hopefully, knowledgeable and this is achieved through the communication of data.  This communication is achieved through our five senses despite a belief by some in a mystical third-eye and the gifts of telepathy and ESP.

Mankind’s communication abilities depend on sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.  This basic toolbox of senses has been augmented, or some say ‘lessened’, over millennia through education and the evolution of culture and technology as our civilizations rise, and eventually, fall. Continue reading →

#315 – VALUE OF COMMUNICATIONS: DOLLARS AND SENSE – MALCOLM PEART

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“Man measures time by happiness or sorrow, tranquility or torture.  The one is past and gone so quickly that is seldom seized and savored while the other turns the hours into days and the weeks into years”.  This was written by Major Pat Reid in “The Colditz Story” and, while it comes from a time of internment at a dark time in history the same is true today.

But what has this got to do with the value of communication?  Communication today is faster, cheaper and more available that at any other time in the history of mankind.  Despite ever-increasing speed and bandwidth and accessibility today’s communication often leads to frustration and time can stand still while we wait for decisions and agreement while enduring argument and misalignment. Continue reading →

#313 – INFORMATION UNDERLOAD: DEPRIVATION OR ATTENTION DEFICIENCY – MALCOLM PEART

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Information Underload; Deprivation or Attention Deficiency

We obtain information through learning to become, hopefully, knowledgeable and this is achieved through the communication of data.  This communication is achieved through our five senses despite a belief by some in a mystical third-eye and the gifts of telepathy and ESP.  Continue reading →

#310 – COULD A ‘NO’ AS ANY OTHER WORD BE A POSITIVE? – MALCOLM PEART

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What’s in a word?

The right word at the right time can make all the difference between a successful negotiation with an amicable agreement and collaborative banter, or a bitter and twisted tête-à-tête with an entrenched stand-off, raised hackles and, at best, fog-horn diplomacy.  But what is the ‘right word’; unfortunately, it depends on the time and place and people’s personality but one thing is almost certain, if it begins with “n” it is oftentimes not considered to be right and many consider it to be downright wrong. Continue reading →