Time For Tech

When we find ourselves suffering from technology overload, we might well long for the good old days, when life was simpler, less complicated and less hectic. When the computer crashes for the tenth time, when an expensive machine breaks down or when a store’s security system goes haywire, it might seem that ever-advancing technology is doing us more harm than good. However, the diamond and jewelry industry, like all others, faces the constant, and inescapable, march of progress in both hardware and software.

While the high-tech revolution is well underway, not everyone is taking full advantage of the merits of online technology – an absolute must to succeed in the current business climate. Here we offer an I.Q. refresher course – not intellectual quotient but Internet quotient.

We also look at some of the technologies taking the diamond industry away from its traditional image as a manual labor-based business. Computers and machinery are coming to the fore right across the industry – for better and for worse. Read on to find out more.