Retailing and the Watching World of Tomorrow
Thursday, December 13th, 2007October 2003
I’ve often found that telling people what tomorrow may be like is not as clear or as effective as illustrating what I mean with a vignette or story set in the future. What follows is one of the vignettes that I originally wrote for my newly published book, Who Owns Tomorrow? 7 Secrets for the Future of Business (Penguin, Toronto: 2003). Unfortunately, as I had to edit out about 40,000 words to pare the manuscript down to size, this vignette wound up on the cutting room floor. It illustrates many of my thoughts about the future of retailing, but also of the living, watching world that will surround us, and that we will take for granted.