| For many the technology of geo-targeting will be a | | | | together to grow human knowledge, and through |
| means whereby they can offer better services | | | | Geo-Targeting experts will have the opportunity to |
| online, for others it will be a way to allow potential | | | | work together to expand our knowledge, while truly |
| customers in different cities to get different | | | | and for the first time having the opportunity to |
| treatments, for others still such geo-targeting will | | | | benefit from the internet as a collective whole. |
| merely be another metric they can use. | | | | Think for example of the theater, as local theaters |
| The true power of geo-targeting will not however will | | | | always struggle to gain the numbers necessary to |
| lay in the ability to make something as global as the | | | | stay open, and operational, despite all the artistry and |
| internet as local as your corner bookstore. In the | | | | humanity that such forums offer us. With |
| past the internet and globalization where about global | | | | Geo-Targeting the theaters of the world could be |
| competition, and while small businesses could still gain | | | | marketing together as a collective whole, drawing on |
| market share in such an environment, loosing any | | | | each others strength and knowledge to support each |
| market share in an industry with minimum profit | | | | other, for when people went to the central site they |
| margins often spelled disaster. With geo-targeting | | | | would have access to the world of knowledge |
| however industries can ally creating a single | | | | available through every theater. At the same time |
| comprehensive website, so when goes to this | | | | what they would see would be what shows and |
| website and orders something from it the order is | | | | events where occurring in their town, as will as ways |
| made through the nearby stores. Further special | | | | to help there towns cultural community grow. |
| events and ads for these stores would be possible | | | | Because there would only be a few of these |
| on this same website. This would allow record and | | | | geo-targeted sites they would over time become |
| video stores whose margins have been hit hard by | | | | catch phrases as only an international and large |
| competition recently to run a download store of their | | | | corporation could, their PR would be to large as will |
| own. Perhaps more importantly it could allow local | | | | as small papers, allowing them to discuss local events, |
| comic book shops, hobby shops, and book stores to | | | | while reminding people of their existence in the most |
| post the events and build their community. | | | | common of magazines and news. This would offer |
| Geo-targeting in this way would allow people to build | | | | the opportunity to expand the arts in ways never |
| not only international communities but local ones as | | | | before possible. |
| well, places where like minded people could truly | | | | Although the humanities are most likely the ones who |
| meet, for no matter where anyone went they would | | | | will benefit most from such a geo-targeted groups, |
| know where to go online to discover their local | | | | many other types of organizations could gain huge |
| community. Book Stores and Comic shops would | | | | advantages. Astronomy clubs one of the most |
| remain community hubs, and artists could continue to | | | | popular forms of independent science available could |
| build the intellectual and cultural history of the place | | | | gain great benefit as people could always find clubs in |
| they lived. For all of these things and more provide | | | | there area and the collective knowledge of the world |
| localized events to build and shape people, and to | | | | could be applied and coordinated to help build the |
| improve their lives. | | | | knowledge base of this industry. |
| Those mass conglomerates would have a huge | | | | By this same token other communities could be built |
| advantage, because they would be run by not a few | | | | up through geo-targeting, robotics and civilian space |
| but thousands of experts, thousands of people with | | | | travel as will could both have their own clubs, which |
| a love and a passion for their industry. United these | | | | support a central whole providing not only resources |
| groups could write articles and help create websites | | | | but knowledge as well. This would allow people to |
| that would expand human understanding of whatever | | | | participate both in something right at home and in |
| their field was. This has always been the promise of | | | | adding to the global knowledge of humanity. |
| the internet the opportunity for people to work | | | | |