PROPERTY GOING GLOBAL
CHAPTER 1
GLOCALISATION
The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect
different results.
Albert Einstein
... Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it’s how smoothly we cope
with Plan B. And for most of us, that’s 99 percent of the time.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The only thing we can rely on is that change is constant. Let’s just consider
this below:
• All information ever obtained is doubled every two years.
• More than $2 billion is spent every day in a quest to
improve technology.
• 1.3 billion email users send 200 billion messages per day.
• A single computer chip is close to having the power of the human
brain.
• 5 billion people in the world are on mobile.
• 4 billion text messages are sent every day.
• 2/3 of the global internet population visit social networks.
• 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day.
• 13 hours of YouTube are uploaded every minute.
• 100,000,000 YouTube videos are viewed every day.
• Some of the researchers are saying the PC-era is over. This is the age
of the touch screen and the tablet.
• More people sign up each month (more than 10 million) to China
Mobile than Vodacom has as subscribers.
• Crowd Funding is expected to raise $500 billion in 2013.
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