I’m blogging today from Prince Edward Island, Canada; a spectacularly beautiful part of the world. Although teeny and rural, it also has a very sophisticated population and advanced technology sector, with high speed Internet initiatives across much of the Island, some renowned tech firms and many outstanding bloggers, such as Peter Rukavina and Rob Paterson.

Since I haven’t had time the last few days to to all that much blogging or business research, (coming here directly from a presentation on Web 2.0 at the Connecticut Library Association’s annual conference), I’ll just pass along something I found to be a very pertinent remark from a fascinating book that I’m reading written by Ronald Wright and titled: A Short History of Progress.

Wright, in discussing how while culture and technology have advanced so rapidly but how little the basic nature of humans have changed over the last tens of thousands of years, and theorizing how this has caused us all sorts of problems, writes that it’s as if we’ve installed 20th century software in hardware that hasn’t been updated in 50,000 years!

Yikes…that’s one system in need of an upgrade….