Integrating Personal and Work Lives - Technology will gradually erase the lines between work and home, allowing instant communication and verification with experts and peers around the world. The Wired Workforce - Virtual work communities will irrevocably alter the dynamics of companies. Products Become Commodities - Values and prices will shift moment to moment. Reaching back to our spiritual roots to promote security in the future. A shift from the traditional goal-oriented, hierarchical models to more caring, relational ones.
Men embracing a new freedom to be whatever they want to be, rejecting traditional roles.
Nostalgia for carefree childhood symbols of our youth to counterbalance intense adult lives. Frustrated consumers are manipulating the marketplace through pressure, protest, and politics. Responding to marketers who exhibit a social conscience toward the fate of the planet, ethics, environment, and education. Although futurists can only guess what the next millennium will be like, the use of technology and the Internet will surely be a part of our professional and personal lives. Personal resilience, internal courage, confidence, self-motivation, and the ability to live with high levels of uncertainty will be hallmarks of the new century.