Trends, Trouble and Technology

Trends, Trouble and Technology

Life is changing – everyone these days is feeling it, or if they are not they must still be in their winter sleep. Ordinary people who normally just go through life from day to day, are talking about the crisis with concern and summing up all the things that it means to them. They have gathered a lot of their information through the media and friends and can discuss it at length with anyone that wants to listen. That in itself is one of the many changes that has occurred over the years. Instead of information which would just come from the (often state-owned) newspaper and radio or TV, it is now being disseminated and gathered in a multitude of ways.

But life has been changing since the Big Bang – we just sometimes forget that we are only a part of an ongoing evolution because it happens so steadily that you cannot see it occur. Just that every now and again, we have what you might term a Little Bang – a hiccup that shows everyone just how much is happening in the world around us. These Little Bangs’ are our Crises. Like the Financial Crisis we are living through currently. In total there have been 5 of these over the past 200 years – starting with the Industrial Revolution. Funnily enough I was listening to an interview with the Dutch Trend watcher of 2008 – Adjiedj Bakas – on the radio confirming my beliefs that these Little Bangs will actually help us move on. As I have mentioned in my blogs before – a recession, or even a crisis, is a necessary evil. Yes, it causes trouble and it is unpleasant in many ways to many people – but it is necessary for us to take the step to a new era. From the Industrial Revolution which had a profound impact on transportation and manufacturing to later changes which ultimately lead to us owning such nice amenities as laptops, televisions and mobile phones – it is always the time of crisis that leads to new innovation.

Technology plays a major role in our society today – and if your eyes are open to it, you will see that society’s behaviour is changing because of it. As we always point out, Social Media are a new mechanism that our younger generation is using to its fullest advantage and the older generation doesn’t yet “Get”. It leads to people connecting online before meeting in person whereas traditionally we have always done it the other way round. It is a major change that is visible, but at the same time many corporations large or small are not taking advantage of it yet. It is my belief that this trend will continue. And whilst it is the “Geeks & Freaks” as my friend Tom de Bruyne at Boondoggle coined it, that are on Twitter now, as opposed to the zillions of people who don’t understand what Twitter actually does or what it might be useful for – soon we will find that this phenomenon and many others like it lead us to a new era. All these social media items are paving the way for a new change, new innovation and whilst in their raw form they may not yet be useable to all – they will converge and evolve into something that one day will be a standard item of our daily lives. Like our mobile phones now, it will be unthinkable that we ever lived without them.

So don’t get down about the crisis, look forward to this new time that will mean a major step forward again in technological and psychological evolution of the human race. We are living it now…  only too soon it will be another “blogger” pointing back to it in history calling it the Sixth Revolution in 250 years…

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Marion
@marionfreijsen
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