Ten years ago, the idea that there would be fully electric cars without drivers, Bitcoins and sea mining seemed to be unreal. But now, all these things no longer seem impossible. We are witnessing the fast pace technological, economic and what is more important, social change.
“We’re entering a period of massive social change,” says sociologist Daniel Lichter, of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. The generation of Baby Boom, majorly white and quite affluent and conservative in the following 10-20 years is going to be replaced by a new, younger generation, and that one will be incommensurably minority
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According to some national questionnaires (Jayson, 2014), the major changes will touch such aspects of life: same-sex and interracial marriage, legalization of marijuana, cohabitation, births to unmarried couples, same-sex couples raising children. The overall situation is much more going to change towards acceptance and tolerance.
There can be written a lot about the new technologies that we will find in 2016, however, the most important thing remains and will be the internet. Internet will be the main place for conducting primary research. Nowadays even though there are all necessary tools for this, sociologists are a bit skeptical since the data collected online is not as valuable as face-to-face conduction. Also, online observations do not give the same kind of legitimacy and credibility as offline.
So, why internet? Here are a few reasons why it will be dominant in the next 10 years.
Everyone across US has it. With the advent of gadgets, it has become ubiquitous and can be accessed from everywhere. It even seems that people are using internet to make sense out of everything, every aspect of the life. The internet is a place where business grows big. But, its primary destination was and will remain being the place that stores incredible number of sources of data to study everything.
In about ten years, all this is going to happen.
- Jayson, S. (2014). Social change accelerates across generations. USA TODAY. Retrieved 28 June 2016, from http://www.usatoday.com
