Just Some Final Thoughts:

    The day has arrived my internet friends, the final blog post. I hope this blog has peaked someone’s interest somewhere out there in the vast internet world. Today for the final post I want to spot some of the trends I see happening around me every day. I have to give it to Cairncross, she hit a lot of them spot on. But as we know the world of technology is changing and transforming faster and faster every day and there was no way Cairncross could have predicted some of the trends that are prevalent in our world today.

 One of the main trends I have noticed is the reliance of the internet as an online worldwide market place, for EVERYTHING. These online behemoths have grown to become as relevant if not more than brick and mortar business like Target and Walmart. Take Amazon for example you can now have your groceries delivered to you within the hour “It describes a drone that will deliver packages to customers based on GPS data from their smart phone, within 30 minutes of placing an order”.

    This trend of almost total reliance on the internet to complete everyday tasks is the most interesting factor of how technology has formed society in the past few years. As mentioned a few weeks ago in a class discussion board we all talked about just how reliant we are on our cellphones to go about our everyday lives. We need them to get directions, call an Uber, check our bank account to see if we have enough money to even go out that night, and to text our friends and make sure our plans are still on.

   This to me is the trend that Cairncross missed, and how could she have known?  That this is what our world would have become? A place where the lines between technology and man are so closely intertwined that it is sometimes hard to see where one ends and the other beings. Who would have thought twenty years ago that coding would have been taught in high school classrooms? Or that celebrities would be created on the internet? In this age of ever changing norms for how we go about our day to day lives I think it is important to carry with us Cairncross's spirit of being a trend spotter. We must stay on our toes, and be on the lookout for the next big thing. Who knows maybe Myspace will make a comeback.

    That is all my internet friends, until we blog again, stay curious.

Work Cited:

thestar.com. (2017). Amazon celebrates 20 years: How the online giant has changed the retail world | Toronto Star. [online] Available at: https://www.thestar.com/business/2015/07/15/amazon-celebrates-20-years-how-the-online-giant-has-changed-the-retail-world.html [Accessed 24 Jul. 2017].