freelance paradigm

If somebody spoke 50 years ago about cross-ocean collaboration, touch screens, user generated content and other things we take for granted in 2011, they would consider him a mental patient. Today we live in this world. When one looks at the iPhone or innovations presented at tech conferences it is hard not to think about science fiction coming true, even though the most significant features of todays world (internet, laptops, mobile phones) were not actually foreshadowed by sci-fi writers. At least not to my knowing. It is kinda amazing, that most of sci-fi is concerned with big-time stuff, like space stations, flying cars or time traveling. There is some element of wishful thinking in that, I'm sure.

But that is not what I wanted to write about. What I am really happy about is being a part of is this global Internet community. Wherever people have access to personal computing device, they can log on and meet around the globe. In best cases they can collaborate, work together and share ideas. This offers a much better chance of meeting somebody of your own interests, tastes and creative wisdom. Clay Shirky writes about that in his book Here Comes Everybody.

In this regard I am proud to say that things are actually working very well in praxis, not just in theory. I bet many of Opera fans are familiar with Violetisha, a big Opera enthusiast who made a lot for this community and my.opera in general. This time she did something awesome for me too; she redesigned my blog. I always wanted something 'wider' (perhaps for high-res photos) or cleaner for reading. She made it true and just look how awesome it looks.

Yes, it is a great thing to live in the future.