Major trends to watch out for in 2017: Part 1

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Brands are exploring new ways to express what they stand for and what their products mean. In real estate, developers are inviting the prospects to stay and get experience of the house they would want to buy in future. Universities are inviting students to take look at the facilities and attend a class to get a hang of the pedagogy.
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There are increasing signs of man and machine converging. We are increasingly getting dependant on Siri and Google to keep ourselves organized. People are spending more time on virtual games. Virtual and physical worlds are gradually merging. We are shifting to devices that are providing us more enriching experiences and helping us out in our day to day life.

Internet with e-mails and social media is gradually making the world small. People are now communicating with people far and wide. Remote location work is seeing a rising trend all over the world, giving rise to home offices and more freedom to work at one’s own time and will.

Real friends are being replaced by online and virtual friends. People are interacting lesser with real friends and families and spending more time with their devices. This is leading to more interactive and feedback based 2-way communications by organizations.

Travel and tourism industry is receiving a major fillip with online shared experiences of people and places. Need to cut off from the over-communicated city life is increasing day by day. In fact many service provider companies are also shifting their studios and work offices to remote areas to get closer to nature and peace.

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