We’re seeing a cultural shift that will lead to new, more flexible concepts of work and social life. With the advent of widespread personal connectivity, people are now interested in public spaces again. While technology has allowed many people to stay closer to home while they work, when you can stay connected anywhere why limit yourself to the confines of the home or the office? When you can take your media and communications anywhere, every place becomes your place. Because what is your home or office, but a locus of activity, expression, and business?
With your iPod, laptop, and smartphone you can colonize almost any space. How will this change how we work and live? How we regard our local and national identities? It is already easy to imagine a world where people flow from place to place, wherever there is opportunity and interest. The only physical limitations are infrastructure and ease of movement.
“…every place becomes your place”
the future is kind of crazy when you think about it, right?
The pace of change is staggering. I mean the things we take for granted now are so new. It’s enough to make you giddy and nervous.