Connectivity technology changing how we live
Stumble It!12 percent of US newlyweds last year met online.
One of the Ten Trends to watch in 2006, according to the McKinsey Quarterly (Jan 2006), is the transforming impact on people’s behaviour of technological connectivity.
“We are forming communities and relationships in new ways: 12 percent of US newlyweds last year met online, more than two billion people now use cell phones and we send nine trillion e-mails a year.”
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