Over the weekend, I was listening to a podcast on the future of technology. With those business oriented thoughts in my head, the presenter said the word, “layers,” which catapulted me through a whole different thought process.
In the future, business will be conducted in layers. I fully believe that there will be many, many more self employed individuals in the world. That’s what the Internet does to a society; breaks them up physically, only to be reassembled through one of the various online networking mediums.
Now, not just store owners, but everyone has a medium. Anyone can implement a website or a e-commerce type of store. You have powerhouses like Ebay who let you use their technology and capitalize on their reach, for a small percentage of listing and selling a good. You will have many more service oriented firms, a lot of whom will do business solely on the internet.
To me, layering refers to this concept. One company or firm will still be able to handle all of your tasks, but it will be more reasonable to go to a couple of individuals and have work done. If you want to build a website or a company, you go to the domain expert, the web designer, the accountant, the lawyer, the project manager, the business strategist, all of whom can be working in some virtual space somewhere, but all will be working together. Maybe even in different parts of the country.
Hence… the term layers.
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