Have you ever seen or received any advertising that says “go paperless” in your mailbox?
Banks have improved their functions and services to online banking. From receiving a paper version of a monthly bank statement in the mailbox, transition into receiving a statement each month via online banking and email notification. One of the pros of digitizing society is that humans are cutting less trees due to a paperless situation, which means environmental-friendly.
Let’s dive into different kinds of change because digital and advanced technologies exist!
Five aspects are as follows, payment, terminology, work, informative learning experience and lifely habits.
PAYMENT:
When you search “Digital Wallet Type” on the Google search bar, these are the most popular wallets that people use in this generation. All kinds of digital wallets lead to a more convenient life and time saving for humans. For example, if you forget to grab your physical wallet at a restaurant, you can just easily use a digital wallet like Google Pay or Apple Pay for the meal.
Some may wonder so what can you put inside the digital wallet?
For travellers, you can simply download your aeroplane tickets and save them inside the digital wallet. It is a fast way to get scanned while lining up at the boarding entrance.
What else can you save inside the digital wallet?
Some venues like Scotiabank Arena do not allow a bigger size of bag for entry. In this case, any concert or exhibition participant can show the tickets where they saved inside the digital wallet on their phones.
For business use, the digital wallet is a game changer whereas the return customers can scan their loyalty card via the wallet on their phones. For instance, Shoppers Drug Mart has the most popular loyalty program called PC Optimum. Customers can save points for rewarding, redeeming, and cash-back programs once they scan the card on their digital wallets.
TERMINOLOGY:
Instead of saying “Did you receive my message?” people would likely say “Hey, I WhatsApp you, have you checked it yet?”
Social media platforms create social life for humans virtually, not physically. The following applications can be frequently used and seen as communication tools:
WhatsApp, WeChat, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter
These applications make a huge impact on human social life. People connect with others to build relationships via these platforms, to get to know more about others’ life or hobbies. For example, many dancers love to connect with other dancers on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube across the world, to share different dance genres and cultures. Each of the applications has a different purpose or field usage, for instance, businesses or recruiters tend to use LinkedIn to connect with suitable candidates for their companies. For social life, some singing or dancing communities seem to use WhatsApp a lot for sharing photos, performance details, or other fun activities. Digital enhancement makes building relationships and connections easier.
WORK:
With people who studied digital marketing, we learned what a hybrid is. When COVID hit in 2020, we all learned the word and meaning of “remote”. After all, there were more work-from-home positions appearing during the 2020-2023 job postings. In 2024, there will be less remote job postings and more hybrid role hiring instead. Remote work life does not provide a physical and normal social life at the office and in other work environments. Hybrid mode means you still get to see your colleagues at least 1-3 times a week to share ideas and work with others physically.
The pros of virtual work are that you can meet people across the world. For example, your clients could be working at the California location for their branches and you are in the Toronto location with a different time zone. It is very normal for tech companies like Dyson and Google, to have hiring managers based in America and the job posting role is based in Canada. Digital life saves time and also money. Signing documents can be easily completed via online systems like SignDoc or Adobe. For the work aspect, digital brings a lot of joy and benefits to staff. People can work together in a team in different time zones and countries.
INFORMATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE:
Online learning is very famous in the educational industry.
How does it work to have a lesson or class virtually?
By clicking a meeting room link, the organizer can invite anyone to connect over the internet virtually. Due to COVID, humans got introduced to Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Google Hangout and other meeting applications. Zoom and Teams are two of the most popular applications for educational institutions and the corporation industry. By setting up a virtual call, people can arrange and organize a regular meeting, virtual training, tutorial session, company introduction and orientation. It can be applied to any kind of electronic device. Teachers use it to host classes virtually, a quick and common way to provide informative content to learners without meeting in person. Digital makes humans smarter and quicker in learning.
LIVELY HABITS:
When people discuss living a healthy life with healthy lively habits, doing exercises and stretching every day can improve your health eventually. YouTube is a well-known platform for audiences to watch a variety of educational content or other learning methods. By following YouTube exercise-related tutorial videos, people can learn and follow every step one by one. Yoga, Pilates, Dance, Zumba, Core Strengthen, HIIT(High-intensity interval training) and cycling are some of the common exercises YouTube creators most likely publish tutorial videos. Rather than getting lost in guidelines at the gym, you may start your exercise session by watching and following the instructions from those videos at home. Advanced technologies make humans pick up habits easily and naturally. Many digital watches like FitBit, Apple Watch, Android Watch, and Huawei Watch provide the same concept of leading people to get used to digitizing society. The main purpose of these digital watches is to act as a reminder of life, not only revealing the current date and time in every second. This is a reminder for all users to remember that it is the time to exercise, stand, stretch, reply to emails, reply to messages and other notifications. Humans are living much smarter than 10 years ago due to the advanced enhancement in technology changes and digitalization.
Nevertheless, digital dynasties are changing and improving every single second. Humans tend to rely on online sources a lot, it has an impact on many aspects. For instance, some followers would love to blindly listen to and trust information or content coming from online influencers. YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok influencers create a strong impact on their followers and this is why digital can make things surreal. This is the digital world where people can be called by different names online. Digital can be good and bad at the same time because it all depends on the situation and environment.
Can you predict what the digital world will be like in 20 years?
It is unpredictable.
Bo Chow 