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from unwanted neighbors. I am reliably informed that there are technologically advanced ways of creating such barriers. Still, the terrific deal age is a border-less one and isolation talks are misinformed. In fact, the American Dream is best demonstrated by immigrants who travelled to America and made the Nation great in the first place. The Trend Is Your Friend There is a tendency of traditional industry operators to fight new trends instead of adjusting their business models accordingly and in good time. Millennials have been said to be as African, European or American in this age with similar behaviors such as avocado eating and trading in crypto-currencies. They are mining for terrific deals through e-commerce in a very aggressive way and corporates need to target them at their point of need. The new generations are termed to value experiences as opposed to owning things and this has created a big market for experiences and sharing. This kind of trends tend to dominate markets over time, remember the dot.com trend? Almost everyone ended up being one. Always remember that the trend is your friend and ride the wave accordingly. While Technology Will Kill Jobs It will also Create More Specialized Ones I always want to be an optimist about job creation. I have heard and seen many corporates cutting jobs and investing in technology. It appears the age which Albert Einstein is quoted to have feared is approaching if it’s not here with us already. He is said to have feared the day machines will have higher intelligence than a human being. The jobs created will have to be more of predictive analytics to predict customers’ behaviors and soft skills. It is high time we invested in education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution that is more knowledge based and results oriented. It is never too late to be what you could have been in the age of terrific deal. Boniface Ngahu is a Market research expert and runs the Talking Point column in Marketing Africa magazine. He is the Marketing Director of SBO Research. You can commune with him on this or related matters via email at: BNgahu@sboresearch. co.ke, or follow him on Twitter @ bngahu AFRICA’S MOST EXPERIENCED ADVERTISING PROFESSIONALS HAVE COME TOGETHER FOR AFRICA’S YOUNGEST COUNTRY. Over 150 years of global advertising creative, design and strategic experience comes together in the Village Creative, South Sudan’s new marketing communications agency. VC’s head office in Nairobi houses strategic, branding and design, digital and video, sound and photographic production facilities while the Juba office houses creative, activation, client service professionals who work closely with Nairobi. Contact Dick Omondi +254737048009 in Nairobi and on +211924849897 in Juba or VILLAGE CREATIVE email dick@villagecreativegroup.com for all branding and communication support in South Sudan.