Creating Change

"Well in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else - if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass.

In the Industrial Age, keeping up with the changes was the game.
Buildings were like rocks.
They sat in one place and stood forever.
Rocks eventually become dust.
Where you're at is where you're at.

In the Information Age, creating change is the only way to keep up.
Invent the future today.
Build on what you know.
Make up what you need to know.
Buildings are like water.
They flow to suit the ever-changing river-bed.
Water is continually recycling.
Where you're headed is where you're at.
Flow to where you want to go.


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