Research question - communication 2015

2. Which trend can be identified in social behavior?

1- People, mainly reach people, with easy access to technology will move out of the crowded cities preferring remote and quite area. In this case technology would change the concept of proximity not only between families and community but also within family members

 a. The concept of family will be anyhow more and more far from the “two parents 
two children” of the last century. the relationship between adults will be 
chosen rather than based on economic necessity
 b. Webcams might by 2020 be playing the role the telephone did in the 20th 
century, a vital communication link for families who might live hundreds of 
miles apart.

2- Creation of gated communities and “compounds where the knowledge and scientific workers live and work, guarded by armed security men. Outside, visible from the trains and toll-ways that link the Compounds, are the Pleeblands, where people toil, consume and exist in a state of under-educated chronic insecurity. As the hero's father explains to him, it is like a throwback to the days of castles and moated manor houses” Technology will be used to reinforce closed community inaccessible networks and to link the different communities