Is anyone else disturbed that all the people in this picture are attempting to take a picture of the Giants Parade with their smart phones? Can they not enjoy the moment and relish the experience, or does their experience only exist once they upload their new photo of the parade to Facebook? The crowd seems to foretell the future, but how will our future of experience pan out? It seems that we will stream our lives to the world through our smart phones or other accessory devices; maybe the crowd would share their experience and prove their attendance through GPS tracking? I’m sure we will realize the future of sharing ours experiences within the next 5 years opposed the the experience of having to share pictures.

Have you noticed that more workstations int he workplace rock the dual monitors? I work in commercial real estate and check out a lot of office space, and over time I’ve realized that multiple monitors at a single workstation have been increasing. I’ve been using a dual monitor setup for at least 10 years now, and I don’t know what I’d do without it. It does make me wonder why in this age we are still working on dual monitors and why no company has introduced just one large monitor. The desire for more monitors arises from the necessity for greater screen real estate on which to work and preform multiple tasks. Why don’t have just one large monitor? It seems inefficient to have to setup multiple monitors instead of one large continuous screen. Perhaps modern user interfaces have not yet advanced to a point to where they can provide a system to meet our needs. I’m envisioning a future similar to Tom Cruise interfacing with a large screen in Minority Report. Additionally our desks will become touchscreens and we will no longer have piles of papers on our desks.

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The United States Postal Service issued a warning last week that it could declare bankruptcy due to its declining revenues and rising costs. The rising costs of USPS are primarily due to employee compensation which can be attributed to 80% of its operating costs which differs from the 30% employee costs of both FedEx and UPS. It seems that the private mail carriers have better operations. This may be true, but the real value of FedEx and UPS will be their future earnings relating an increase in goods purchased over the internet. Internet purchases will increase as the household income of the millenials increases. Retail sales will rely less on the baby boomers who are no too savvy with computers, but still contribute a majority of retail sales.  FedEx and UPS will provide the delivery for the purchases over the internet which will increase substantially with the disposable income of the new generation and the ability and ease of which the new generation takes to making purchases online as it is found to be more convenient. just as the new generation requires instant gratification, brick and mortar retail will adapt as well by shipping their shelf goods by FedEx and UPS as a faster means than freight shipping, and will ship smaller and more frequent deliveries as we’ve seen Zara of the Spanish based Inditex do to differentiate themselves from their peers. Zara’s concept of Fast Fashion are new styles that are delivered to stores biweekly and in limited numbers. The constant shippment of goods through FedEx and UPS will add up as other retailers come to adopt this method of service.

Fast Fashion of Inditex: WSJ