Someone put their foot down on the world's accellerator .
What has changed in your life over the past few years, and how are you coping?
Social media, web sites and e books didn't exist not so long ago.
It could be argued that the rate of change has ruined a lot of industries. It is difficult to predict anything anymore.
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People don't advertise so much in newspapers anymore; they use social media or web sites instead
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People study things in a course, graduate, then find what they studied is out of date
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Business plan for the future, looking at what is in demand today; but by the time they launch the product, it is no longer in demand
If you see a need today & plan to deliver it tomorrow; by the time you organise the resources to deliver on that need, the world has moved on and the need no longer exists.
Social media has increased the connections between people, but so have web sites, the telephone, fax, broadcast media and air travel.
Social media may well be replaced by something else that we cannot yet imagine, just as the telephone replaced the hand written letter.
Nothing stays the same, and either we embrace change and become one of the minority who takes advantage of change; or we fear change and become one of the majority who are destabilized by change.
What are you?