According to a study by the Team at Intel’s People-Centred Research facility :

A key driver of worldwide adoption of technology for the past two decades has been the human desire to connect with other human beings. The most rapidly scaling services — email, instant messaging, cell phone adoption, and text messaging on cell phones have all been about people connecting with people.

Not suprising really.

I have also found that one of the secondary drivers in the adoption of technology has been for the purposes of learning - parents providing online access for their kids, seniors doing research on family history and areas of interest, business owners using online sources to stay up to date or learn new skills.

Many times this will happen in isolation - a single reader learning from a single source - but sometimes the benefits of the learning are amplified when a single source provides multiple voices and perspectives.  That is what is currently happening at the Joyful Jubilant Learning Forum hosted by Rosa Say at her Talking Story blog.

Rosa is hosting a forum on Learning during September and has gathered together 27 guest writers to talk about learning.  There are perspectives from around the globe and I am pleased to say that I am the current guest author.  Even though there were many aspects of learning I could have share I decided to stick with my passion for demystifying technology and wrote a piece called "10 Ways to Become Fluent in Technology".

Even if technology is not what you most enjoy learning about you will find many other articles that will engage you in a learning conversation.

Why not head on over there now ….