2013

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    "2013 is set to become the year when the world wakes up to the new economic reality. Every single aspect of modern human life on planet Earth has been radically transformed by digital process and procedure, and yet we still believe in old economic models. We still believe we are in recession, and that recovery will surely follow. What the world has not yet accepted is that recession and recovery are like coal and water... old models of locomotion that only existed out of necessity in the slow, localised, time-based transaction state of the last century. What we all experience now at the tale end of this last apparent recession, is merely the first phase in a completely new paradigm where economic continents have been atomised and exist now as tiny, rapidly shifting nuclei which can no longer amount to a single identifiable state. Economics has become multi-dimensional, quantum-like, unpredictable and chaotic like the gaseous build-ups in a carbonated beverage. There is no recession, there is no recovery. There is instead a need for people to acclimatise to the new model, and to accept the manner in which the world's economy now conducts. The effects of this will be profound. Holistically speaking, developed nations continue to enjoy more wealth with every passing day, and developing nations also rise. Yet individuals feel increasingly traumatised by their personal financial affairs. We are trying to apply today's money currents to yesterday's consumer habits and it will never be the same again. Spending patterns will undergo dramatic change because of this. It will be painful for people who can't make the consciousness shift that is required. Lifestyles will inevitably change, and the shapes of our towns and cities will reform to a new functioning standard in order to reflect the emerging paradigm. Even our dwellings and ways of living will evolve to better reflect the new ideal. In a sense we are seeing the logical end to democracy, consumerism and capitalism. Not because those systems have been defeated, but specifically because they have succeeded."

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