Wednesday 13th August 2025 marked 35 years since I started full time work in the tech industry after graduating. I had posted this following thought on LinkedIn and Facebook and it seemed to resonate with people, so whilst the web is still here and not swamped with AI Agents doing deals I thought I would share it a little more permanently.
I started at IBM where I had already had a year working as part of my degree. Given I also had my first program published when I was 14 in CVG magazine (a lunar lander game on c64) I have had a long old career, on top of the 35 years “officially” mostly in future and emerging technology. (Image is of a cyberpunk old Father Time using new Adobe Firefly app on the phone).
Why something exists and how it works and where it’s going I find hugely interesting still. Things that are experiential being the biggest draw. What does it feel like to communicate in a virtual world? what does it feel like driving an electric car? How does a story or narrative get to us? How do you think about creating? Whilst the rise of AI taking care (supposedly) of all the drudge in work our experiences and things that make us feel will become more prominent. A lot of business focus becomes numbers, how much cash, how many shares but it would seem we, as thinking feeling people are the next emerging technology. Or maybe we always have been. 🙂 Anyway here’s to the past 35+ years 🙂
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