How Three Things Will Change The Way You Approach Local Communities

The net has certainly created the ability to communicate and engage with others across the globe however the explosion of the internet has far greater consequences too! In this particular short article we shall look-at how the web will eventually impact nearly all facet of human interaction from where and how we live, our work endeavours, even to how we have been governed. The web has the potential to reverse the recent failure of the family unit and breath life back into 'personal response-ability' an element that has sadly declined over the past few decades.

Our kids will not understand how to talk to each other any more resources...

There's a real fear that Social-Media in all of the its guises is turning our kids into illiterate, anti social people who are forgetting basic skills like writing proper sentences and who is only connection to the outside world is by way of a keyboard and sites like Facebook. Quite frankly this is an ill informed view... although texts and short hand communication will be different it really is certainly more legible than shorthand of the past... and if we look closely at posts and communications on Facebook they are largely resulting from parties, gatherings, and offline social intercourse.

So rather than depend on hype and scaremongering allow us to 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 place of work 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, you'll find some tasks that need people to be in a specific place, but... there are numerous that don't.

As the economy changes, as the new generation enter the workforce they may be searching for a lot less delineated style of working than those of us who learned our stock and trade through the 70's, 80's and 90's. Gone are the fixed hours, gone are the fixed locations, people are starting to question, why cannot I work when the kids are asleep, I am at my best 5am within the morning, I don't want to be tied down to 9-5 concepts anymore... It could even be that business partners are international and 11pm is when the conference call takes place. People are waking up to the truth that work can be scheduled around family life, the school runs and looking after the children 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 mentioned 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. These 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 facilitates this way of working, but what will be the impact of these changes going forward?

Check for changes in buildings and also the use to which buildings are put too... We have already seen the construction of homes that combine living space in addition to 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 will start to find out 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 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 anyone operating in a similar way.

It is not too hard to imagine that these shared office spaces could turn into networking and business collaboration hubs, no longer doing work for just one company, people will inevitably shall find out what others do, recommend others and come into contact with a good selection of distinct business skills. This may well be the natural evolution of the 'stand alone' dedicated networking clubs that have sprung up over the recent times, where networking is a normal part of the day compared to an event attended several times a week.