My sister (let’s call her Sharky) bought me a book for Christmas.
Sharky lives in Argentina.
She bought the book from a shop in the UK.
I’m on holiday in a remote part of Indonesia.
She bought the book, told me about it, and I was reading it, in less than ten minutes.
This is the new reality – actually, not even that new anymore. Any information product (book, film, music, software, design) can go anywhere, in effectively no time.
The new possible consists of the things that this reality enables – not just instant access to information products, but information to go into products (3d printing designs, specifications) or for the delivery of products and services (your exact requirements or preferences, your real-time location, your purchase history, your credit rating).
What becomes possible in your field when the information is so relevant and so available, when the transaction becomes so fast, so frictionless?
AirBnB, and Uber are cannonical examples of the new possible, to which I’d add the fact that this year, Sharky bought me a Christmas present.