Advice On Local Communities
The net has certainly created the ability to communicate and engage with others throughout the world though the explosion of the net has far greater consequences too! Inside this short article we're going to look at how the internet will ultimately impact nearly every facet of human interaction from where and just how we live, our work endeavours, even to how we have been governed. The internet has the potential to reverse the recent failure of the family unit and breath california life magazine back into 'personal response-ability' a thing that has sadly declined over the past few decades.
Our children won't know how to talk to each other anymore...
There is a real fear that Digital Media in all of the its guises is turning our children into illiterate, anti social those that are forgetting basic skills like writing proper sentences and who is only connection to the outside world is through a keyboard and sites like Facebook. Quite frankly this really is an ill informed view... although texts and short hand communication differs it really is certainly more legible than shorthand of the past... and if we look closely at posts and communications on Facebook they may be largely resulting from parties, gatherings, and offline social intercourse.
So rather than rely upon hype and scaremongering let us look at some of the really interesting trends taking place right now which could reveal our true destiny rather than get carried away with that of our overzealous imagination.
Yes the workplace is evolving, there is a strong desire, backed up with new government legislation to permit people if requested to work from home. Of-course this is not always possible, manufacturing, distribution, there are actually some tasks that need people to be in a particular place, but... there are various that do not.
As the economy changes, as the new generation enter the workforce they can be looking for a much less delineated style of working than those of us who learned our stock and trade during the 70's, 80's and 90's. Gone are the fixed hours, gone will be the fixed locations, people are starting to question, why can not I work in the event the kids are asleep, I am at my best 5am within the morning, I do not want to be tied down to 9-5 concepts anymore... It may even be that business partners are international and 11pm is in the event the conference call takes place. People are waking up to the very fact that work may be scheduled around family life, the school runs and caring for the kids between 4pm and 7pm is prime family time, and also a couple of hours may be squeezed in at 8pm-10pm or early within the morning.
Not only the above however... the net enables people to quickly setup businesses, Joint venture and collaborate to produce businesses which are based from home. Suddenly a whole new sector of Micro enterprise is arising. They are very efficient, task orientated, highly flexible and adaptable businesses, able to take advantage of emerging trends and grow quickly to compete with more traditional businesses with offices and staff, but with much lower overheads.
Of-course cloud computing and the plethora of new and emerging Internet services allows for this way of working, but what is the impact of these changes going forward?
Check for changes in buildings as well as the use to which buildings are put too... We have already seen the construction of homes that combine living space along with office style accommodation, catering for the new genre of businesses, moving away from back bedroom / family room table which impinges on regular family activity, but close enough to be on-hand should the family demands it.
Office blocks shall start to determine large sectors of vacant space as businesses scale down the physical size of their enterprise, but this will give rise to shared office space opportunities... meeting places for solopreneurs or Micro businesses to hold Jam sessions with collaboration partners... or for all those who find working alone a challenge, a far more social area to work from with the potential for pub nights out as well as other events for all those operating in a similar way.
It really is not too challenging to imagine that these shared office spaces could turn into networking and business collaboration hubs, no longer doing work for an individual company, people will inevitably shall find out what others do, recommend others and come into contact with a large choice of distinct business skills. This could very well be the natural evolution of the 'stand alone' dedicated networking clubs which have sprung up over the recent years, where networking is a normal a part of the day rather than an event attended several times a week.