Advances in our working-day technology have been extraordinary and yet, warns Professional Adviser's Armchair Critic Brendan Llewellyn, there are plenty of ways this can conspire to make us less effective
1. The tyranny of the new When did you last see a job advert for ‘Head of Analogue'? You must bet the future - be on the right side of history. You must embrace all things new and most things new are of a technological nature. If you do not buy into this, you have only one position left open to you - that of ‘Chief Luddite'. The ‘dotcom boom' was falsely branded - it was in fact the ‘dotcom false dawn'. It featured absurd notions such as ‘dotcom time', and propositions were conceived and delivered in the time it took to load up a new website. Businesses rose then crashed and burned yet...
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