The changes that have occurred in the past few years that have significantly impacted on how we live our lives, interact and socialise, do business and engage in other economic and leisure activities, have been nothing short of evolutionary.
Nombulelo Guliwe, Acting Chief Executive Officer of South African Tourism
Evolution has as one of its characteristics the glacial pace at which it unfolds. However, the rapid infusion of pervasive telecommunications, digital, artificial intelligence and other technologies has had an accelerating effect on the current phase of human evolution.
Yet equally prominent have been the evolutionary cues that point to, and reel and anchor us back to our humanity. As a result, our generation has arguably come to appreciate that all the tech in the world cannot entirely substitute for our most basic need for, amongst others, human connection, real-life (as opposed to virtual) adventure and unforgettable experiences, physical, emotional and spiritual…
