Folkestone's Latest Blog - Digital Connectivity – 2015 A Watershed Year But It Is Only The Beginning

Folkestone’s Latest Blog – Digital Connectivity – 2015 A Watershed Year But It Is Only The Beginning

Published February 02, 2016 10:07AM UTC

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1st February 2016

Digital Connectivity – 2015 A Watershed Year But It Is Only The Beginning

2015 was a watershed year for digital connectivity.

We have moved from an information economy where we created data, to an intelligent economy where we are connecting a myriad of objects that can not only generate data but facilitate the sharing of information and real time analysis. The speed of change is unprecedented and inexorable.

Our economic, learning, cultural, and human environments are being transformed. This is especially true for the real estate sector – houses, office, retail, industrial, health and medical facilities, hotels and cities – where digital disruption is having an enormous impact.

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