In the new environment, executives change jobs as frequently as do migrant laborers. Corporations are transnational, merging and splitting like slime molds. An environment of fluidity demands new values. With so little permanence in human relationships, abstractions like the brand name have become the only constants. The fluidity of people has resulted in brands being deified.
Kids are smarter.
Not all kids, alas. But the ones on the favorable side of the curve are zooming. Five years ago we already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults. What we're seeing now is that they don't even need to be taught. It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.