My digital twin

It had been a reasonably straightforward panel discussion on the future of work. Marcus had been asked to contextualise the built environment in an otherwise technology-slanted group of experts. While he didn’t see himself as an expert in that field, he was confident nevertheless with his theories around what constituted progress in facilities management and the impacts technological change were having.

By the end of the most thought provoking 45 minutes in his career, however, he was aware of gaping holes in his appreciation of the nature of this change.

Instead of focusing on what practitioners should and should not be doing, he realised how exponential changes have become and how technologies are fast converging, at worst rendering the familiar obsolete for some people and at best unfashionable for the vast majority.