The Alpha Is The Omega

While some people fret about its impersonal character, social media is actually hyper-personal. It creates opportunities for romance and business that would make even Don Juan and JP Morgan blush. Today 7 billion people can flirt online, propose a friendly merger, and break-it-up…all over the course of a double latte. Social media can’t change human nature or the basics of business—everyone still needs love and money—but it can increase pace. Figuring out how social technology can help us build more reliable, sustainable relationships makes non-fat latte a richer drink. But still…

When relationships can form and dissolve at the speed of electrons is the beginning the end of romance? Of business?

Illustration/Istvan Banyai