The World We Live In

November 13, 2007 in Technology with 4 Comments

Step back. Remove your filters. What do you see? I see a world that embraces…

  • Globalization
  • Social networking
  • Mass collaboration
  • Open source
  • Mobile technology
  • Online video

What are the trends or innovations that you see?

4 Responses to “The World We Live In”

  1. anne jackson November 13, 2007 at 9:38 pm #

    i see people who want to help other people – the world – in which they live…however that looks like to them.

  2. dale schaeffer November 14, 2007 at 12:59 am #

    Beards, Mustaches, and Mutton Chops…okay, maybe not Mutton Chops.

  3. Chris Chowdhury November 14, 2007 at 8:43 am #

    Tony,

    One trend I see in technology is the moving away from product-centered people (“I only drive Chevy’s”) to people-centered products (like blogs). In the future, most products will be as custom as our lunch may be today because the power to change the product is shifting (and in many cases HAS shifted) to the user rather than the developer.

    The Gospel will always center on Christ, but in the future people will not only RECEIVE the Gospel, they will take part in CREATING it. I guess we could call it building the Kingdom.

  4. brad cooper November 14, 2007 at 2:47 pm #

    I hear Chris on that— I would say USER GENERATED is the term i see most in Student Ministry— even when this means a sacrifice in quality or excellence— ie Youtube— I’ll even say that User generated is a little “old”… That is to say… you see systems like MySpace losing traction to BETTER… MORE EXCELLENT SYSTEMS… like Facebook… A perfect storm that is being refined… User Gen+ Proper System/format= HUGE IMPACT/TRACTION/EXPONENTIAL GROWTH

    One Love