Digital Nomads and Hourly Heroes

If telecommuting is your bread and butter, you already know the difference between these two ideatic figures dreamt by marketing and respectively business people.

Most laptop advertisings are depicting the digital nomad as an always worriless, jovial traveler selecting beautiful places for processing his or her to-do on the latest and greatest device.

The hourly heroes are expected to act as on-call gurus, experts, rock-stars or ninjas (you name it) in order to get things right, on-time and on-budget.

Daydreaming is not a bad thing per se, focusing from time to time on our goals and visualizing them are useful practices, but from wishful thinking to great achievements there is a never-ending iteration of working and learning processes. Along the way we learn which are the best and most important things for us, and how to achieve them.

Nowadays working online is rather a lifestyle than a temporary solution for youngsters and people between two jobs. The ubiquitous Internet supports us in acquiring the educational resources we need to reach one's potential, and then finding communities, where one's contributions are going to create added value.

The Internet has potentiated the development of a new, community-built culture, which is nurturing the democratization of the education.

For months we have been witnesses of more or less violent movements all over the world - many young people are out on the streets and protesting against various things, and often taking inappropriate actions.

The mass movements are always carrying the risk of being manipulated and diverted by bad guys. I trust that the new generation will learn their lesson well, and will manage to play down the segregationist practices, which are still affecting the education systems of multiple countries.