So many changes being delivered our way, no matter who we are/where we live/or what we do.
As Marshall McLuhan stated, back in the 60s / 70s, "the medium is the message".
By 1999, the Internet Revolution had begun to be "mainstream". Today, we are emerging from the transition period (1999 to 2010??) between 20th and 21st century lives.
Technology, created to perform what the Information Age needs, is rewiring our brains, I think. We are becoming different people as we step up to meet the challenges of this profound time of change.
McLuhan may have been the first to note that the new methodology would erase time and geography, and turn our worlds into a "global village".
The still existing tribal cultures, with strong patriarchal emphasis, which did manage to hold on in insular pockets up till now, may not be able to withstand the pervasive interruption in all our lives of the current technological revolution.
Power has been delivered into the hands of the consumer of information...we are very close to a totally mobile experience, where each person's point of view may be shared with the world, but so will all other points of view -- the top down control, then, will disappear. The bottom up approach, from each individual mind, with the tools to share that individual response, will be the starting point.
Both a vehicle for freedom and a potential for misuse...the usual yin/yang of life, then. As Kierkegaard reminded us, in the 19th century, it's always "either/or".
So...profound change, bigger perhaps than the Gutenberg invention of the printing press, although that 14th Century invention did lead to the Renaissance (16th century) and to Humanism (18th century)), and maybe right now is the final outcome of those ideas?
Short-view, and just about the real estate industry, (which like all businesses has become a consumer-centric model, and thus marketing of property has profoundly changed, too), please call or email or drop by my office in person, and discuss how connecting of buyers and sellers can best be accomplished.
Change is everywhere!
Ah...but in change lies opportunity!
Look forward to connecting with you....
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