Bombarded by Innovation

Last year I attended two Office 2.0/Web 2.0 conferences and I left them feeling overwhelmed, humbled, and totally delighted.  For a technology junkie like me, there's nothing like spending a day or two being bombarded by technology and trying to sort it out on the fly.

You stand there in the aisle thinking:

• Is this really new and unique?
• Is it valuable? So valuable that everyone will want it?
• How does it fit into the way the market is evolving?Does using it demand rearranging all our ideas and plans?
• How much is it going to cost?
• Who are the people who are going to bring it to market?  (Tricky -- the people who invented it may have brought it to the conference in the hopes of finding a buyer or a marketing partner)
• And -- most important - would I kill to have one now right now?  (I remember feeling that way the first time I see the pre-alpha version of PowerPoint, back when we did slides by using an Orator Typeball on our selectric or paying a graphics artist to create the slides.)

So, once more into the fray I go at Office 2.0 in San Francisco (at the St. Regis Hotel, September 5-7).  They are expecting more than 50 of these goodies in two jam-packed days.  Since they will have multiple things going on at once (no fair:  I want to see it all), I will no doubt be zipping around like a maniac trying to be certain I haven't missed anything amazing.  If you want to join me, click here:  http://www.o2con.com/

And bring your roller skates.