… well, as I’ve said before, when your European office opens and you need an in-house copywriter, you have at least one person in your contacts list who believes in what you’re saying!

If we look at change as exponential, we’re looking at the same magnitude of change over the next 5 years–and much of that change will be driven by social media and virtual worlds, just like the changes over the last 10 years were driven by the advent of the internet.

So . . . how much of “2012 Calling” is science fiction? Well, it depends on your POV.

Will there be businesses that operate much like they do today in 2012? Sure, especially ones that are hands-on like manufacturing.

Will there be ones that look like the one in the above blogpost? Most likely. Especially when facial and gestural expression mapping comes to virtual worlds, allowing you to do at least medium-duty business there, and enterprises with lots of knowledge workers start running the cost numbers for maintaining real-world offices.