To celebrate Facebook’s Deals going live…. it’s time to comment on the coupon craze. And craze it is…. it’s captured our attention to no end. Â Not being fully versed with the Facebook model (I
PRIVACY IS OVER. It’s a semantic issue. People really mean “civil liberties”, whether they know it or not.
Hotels, arguably, are among the most sensitive organizations in the world when it comes to respecting all levels of it’s guest’s / patron’s privacy. It’s not our responsibility, however, to be blamed for the growing pains involved with the greatest shift in human communication’s history. Unfortunately, until we resolve these issues…. everyone will grimly fantasize about being important enough to be stalked. It’s not that I am that cynical, it’s just that I know we may not be *that* interesting.
Futurology One & Two: The Coming Singularity
Assuming you got here because of our industry, we travel and hospitality professionals forget we are dabbling in technologies that not only resolve significant problems for the human race, but which can also completely alter what it means to be human, to begin with. Even at this point, superhuman technologies bolster our frail frames and help us to walk, to breathe, and much more. Even now it would be difficult to gauge where a human ends, and biogenetic, biotech, or bionic extensions begin. It’s interesting to think… to remain human, we may need to become more human than human.