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Related to my last blog on smartphones from CNN article.

All while working, I would often separate my own experiences and take note of what was happening in the third person. I was actually working on a fourth person, but that is a story for another time and place. I won’t discuss it, cause I haven’t perfected the art yet, but it is cool nonetheless. Super cool.

Anyways, often in my third person experiences, effiencies could have been taken to superlative heights if smartphone technologies could have been put to better use. I often noted the I don’t give a shit shop boss as receiving text messages or sending them out in anticipation of what was going to happen in the shop. But between employees for work purposes, nada, zip, zilch. On say something as simple as to avoid waste of product material, waste disposal, trees cut down. BIG FAT ZERO. Simple measures to help everyone, everything around.

There are better proofs of concept out there from a logistics point of view. Car factories, manufacturing plants are all tried, true and tested. It was simply a matter of better management foresight to employ smartphone technologies for everyone’s benefit. Opportunities missed and I’ll bet 10 to 1 that someday the competition will be making an art of it and will kill this small stair business. That or employee turnover at total rock bottom minimum wages and industrial accidents will be the order of the day and will be the only thing keeping it alive and barely hanging on to it’s fingernails for survival. Don’t say I told you so, it’s reality and very doable. It’s up to governments, business owners and employees to sit, talk and get it together. I promise you that the days of making stairs will one day take place in other countries such as China and shipped here. Cheaper, faster and Walmartsy prices. Try to beat that like making all our metal wood screws stamped with Made in Taiwan now.

And the proof is in the pudding as they say. Today stairs of almost all types are built off-site and shipped on site. Unless high end custom and even that, stairs will be build in other countries where everything is cheaper except the shipping. Something to think about n’est pas? What’s next after stairs – whole built in drop-into-place pre-finished bathrooms and kitchens, something like modular mix-n-match designs. Kitchens built in Scandinavia, bathrooms built in Italy, basements built in Asia, roofs built….. So it’ll be up to the Architects, engineers, logistic team to get a crane, no more than a few good people and smartphones to make it happen. Think it’s impossible, think again. Give your heads a good spin people. We are too inefficient and we’ll get our asses kicked. Businesses want it cheap and quick – bottom line is the profit, duh! And labour unions will go the way of the dodo. Even highrises are in for fundamental changes once someone figures out how to assemble made-in-other-countries lego blocks.

What will Canada be left with – that is the question. Quality of Life slipping down the drain. Resources whether real and tangible or people are being shipped out at an ever increasing spiral rate of speed. Let’s ask ourselves this question, how many of us will be spending our time in places of worship praying for better days, else all hell breaks loose if our prayers aren’t answered?