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Are you on the Internet? Do you have it in both your business and your

home?

If not, you better sell your car, if you have one, and walk, but you must

have a computer and be on the Internet

If you have a house, it would be far smarter in today's world to have a

smaller house with Internet, than a bigger house with no Internet.

It would be far, far smarter to have a smaller car, or none at all, and be

able to afford a computer and Internet for your business and family, than

to have a luxury car or the like.

Those who understand what I'm saying here are better positioned to

make the career changes needed as a result of disruptive changes to the

workplace, and the jobs we do.

Whatever work you do, or plan to do in the future, you have to upgrade

your "toolbox" for the changing times ahead. I want you to be prepared.

Remember what I wrote last week about your mindset? And the week be-

fore that, about imagining the horizon beyond today's horizon?

As I’ve written you before, the “mobile revolution” has already given

way to the “Internet revolution.” If the Internet were an ocean, then what

you’re seeing today is just the shoreline. The Internet will even transform

our villages. In the future, the village store and grinding mill will use the

Internet, even to order and manage inventories. Even the village school

will be changed by the Internet.

You will see it happen. Somewhere, somebody is already working to find

a solution. Just five years ago, if I had said to you, “Villagers in the remot-

est parts of Africa will be able to receive money from anywhere in the

world within five minutes or even less,” what would you have said?

You're the ones called to make this kind of thing happen. It’s your time. Is

your toolbox ready?

Dr. Strive Masiyiwa