Brick and mortar banks close many expensive outposts and begin to service customers via interactive methods while cyberbanks crop up and nibble away at market share. Society seems to be getting more and more complicated. Technology has provided many efficient utilities that makes it possible to do more work than ever before but we are also spending more hours creating even more work. I think an awful lot of this efficiency is really waste. Just like the study of how people use their cellphones which showed most use was personal and trivial.
Time becomes more of a commodity.
People will begin to manage their time better because they will have much less of it to devote to enjoyable activities. In London, parking spaces and the lack of will drive people to home shopping. There are also consumers who live in remote locations. Interactive retail is a technological improvement to the well established and fast growing field of home shopping. The new age product for the digital economy is information.