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New Ways of Living and Working – The growing importance of communities

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In the industrial age, which has been replaced by the information age (but many people still don’t realize this yet), life and work was divided like this: -       -   Citizen -        -  Companies -        -  Cities -        -  Countries As citizen, we did work in companies, which where located in cities. If we did work in other cities, the commute challenge was added to the equation. And it did matter in which country you did live and work. These old ways of living and working are now rapidly changing. Lifetime employment for a company has completely vanished. Especially large companies are having difficulties in adapting to the information age. Almost all (needed) innovation comes from small companies, specifically startups. Countries are also loosing their power. The level of trust is also here (like with companies) at an all-time low. People don’t trust their governments and politicians any more.  Cities are becoming like countries in themselves