Not to long ago our class was visited by a man named Erik Hanberg, who is currently serves as one of the commissioners for the Metro Parks in Tacoma. Hanberg is also an author of science fiction novels, and has started up several small companies and web sites.
Part of his speech was dedicated to telling the class how websites such as Amazon and devices such as the kindle have made ECommerce easier to perform than ever before because everybody has an opportunity to sell goods, promote themselves online, and are able to publish their writings by putting them online. He also states hoe the internet is an opportunity for creative and self driven individuals that are willing to succeed in the world of technology.
He also mentions later on that the amount of online privacy we have today will most likely be the most we will ever have. This is surprising to me not because of paranoia, but because I thought we already had no privacy online.
He also talked briefly about the effects of disintermediation, which is the removal of the "middleman." In terms of publishing a book this may be a publishing or marketing company. He also stresses how one in this position needs to spend his/her time working and promoting oneself or else their work may go unnoticed by the general public.
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