In his interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio"?Jim Young discusces exciting technology developments and using the web effectively.

The Potential for Efficiency with Technology:

1. Around the year 2000, six fundamental and independent technologies aligned for the first time to become even more powerful: inexpensivepowerful computers, broadband, wireless, the Internet, Internet appliances and integrated information systems.

2. Working together, they create an integrated, real-time world that reduces the need for people and paper to accomplish commercial property-related tasks; the result is a new way to operate a building or commercial company.

3. Some tech-savvy commercial brokerages have improved the ratio of brokerage professiaonals to assistants from 2/1 to 30/1.

4. An important focus at Realcomm"?is the obsolescence of traditional job functions; the conference addresses the jobs being impacted, the technologies that will replace them and the new job descriptions.

In the same briefing Young also discusses:

Global Real Estate Technology
Reasons for the US Lag
Intelligent Building Defined
Loss of Jobs
Exciting Technology Developments
Using the Web Effectively
Capsulized Advice