Coworking and Progressions from Web 2.0

The usage of the internet has gone from Web 1.0 - The Single user to Single Website - to Web 2.0 - the use of inter-connected social networking blogs, wikis, miniblogs, photoblogs, podcasts and RSS feeds. This illustrates the resurgence and realization that the human need for direct interaction, not to mention personal feedback,  and cooperative function has never gone away.

We are starting to realize that living life as a single entity wrapped up in the stresses of our miserable little lives with the weight of the world on our shoulders is having hugely negative affect on our mental and physical health.

This fascinating freeform definition of our world now was posted on the Loic Le Meur blog.  Loic is a blogger and an entrepreneur and has a lot of great things to offer the Web2.0 community.

Here it is:
-no office
-no boss (self employed)
-no Country (world citizen)
-no race (does not matter)
-no diploma (who cares)
-no smoking (has been)
-no hierarchy (OK, not much hierarchy)
-no political party (!!!, we care more about people than parties)
-no tie, no suit: casual all the time
-no monopoly, no center, everything decentralized
-no religion (not has important as it was before)
-no marriage (not needed to live together)
-in sync: no email, no phone, just IM, twitter, social software...
-no off-line: everything online, Gmail Google apps rather than MS Office
-no distance: it does not matter where you are
-no mass media: they are here but do not matter as much as before -no fear of embarrassment or of failure: the "always beta" culture
-icons: Hans Rosling, Sergey Brin, Lary Page
-book: The World if Flat from Thomas Friedman
-entrepreneurial or self employed
-ideas over systems
-sharing ideas instead of keeping them secret (authority and power change from people protecting information to people sharing it)
-ethics: environment, ...
-global citizen

Source: Here

A lot of you reading this have already realized where the next stepping stone is. Yep, that’s right, ladies and gentlemen, coworking. We have reached a point where the stopping point of virtually surrounding ourselves with our online buddies has made us even more prone to seeking to rectify our disconnection.

Case in Point:

[geekieboy] yo dude, thx for helping me with this.. sorry it took so long solving that issue, you know how txt is.

[servergod] np dude, was gr8 working w/you

[geekieboy] yeah wow.. that took it out of me.. I need a beer. Catch U l8r!

       *geekieboy has signed out.

[servergod] wow, beer sounds great. Yeah.. umm l8r.

Ouch.

We perceive lonely stares and neck strain from cubicles caused by passing visitors to our lonely Cubetown.  We have Tech Entrepreneur Guy on his laptop drinking his 5th uberlatte in the Wedon’tgiveoutnofreewifi BurntCoffee R Us trying to talk on his cell phone to a potential client while shrill toddlers demand a cuppa choc’late milk in the background.

I think you get my point.

So the next step? Coworking. Your own social network within an arms reach. Productivity skyrockets. Your health improves. You have less stress. There are fireworks! Most of your peers now have faces, not Buddy Icons.

Ok, I think I exaggerated with the whole fireworks thing. But this progression is not limited to one town or one city or even one country. This is worldwide and there is a coworking center in most of the major cities. Exciting stuff, don’t you think?

So, use Web2.0 to it's fullest extent.  Expand your productivity through the aforementioned tools by using it with the ultimate goal of face to face networking. 

Bottom line: Cowork.