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What is Anomy? The state of anomy is much the same as smelling some smoke and after which makes you confused and lost. The real definition of it is: "A state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values." This concept has emerged in 1893 with French sociologist Ă‰mile Durkheim. According to him, some people might experience Anomy, especially there's a sudden change in their circumstances. One good example will be the Japanese soldiers after world war 2 where their economy started to pick up after they went back to their homeland after the war. Besides this example, another example could be for the modern world people; as the digital economy started to pick up and transform thousands and millions of lives, those who are not technology savvy might choose to give up learning new things and shows an emotion of apathy. A minority of those might experienced anger and frustration too. Below is a video of

The World Has Changed

I believe everyone has already heard about Uber and Grab car. So what is it all about and how will it impact our lives?

As the whole world population grows, our resources have become lesser and lesser. And the more reason we need to utilize whatever we have appropriately. The picture below shows the population growth throughout the years. Current population growth rate in 2016 is around 1.13% per year. So how can technology solve this problem? The answer is crowdsourcing. The term crowdsourcing comes from the word "crowd" and "outsourcing". Some of the advantage of it includes; improved costs, quality, speed, diversity, flexibility or scalability.
This has pushed a lot of people who is not savvy about technology to use technology inevitably.

One of the highest cost of living beside housing will be transportation (if you personally own a car) and the reason why I have decided not to own one are given here. In order to help the majority to get used to the so-called "disruptive technology". I have created a video of "how to take a Uber car" and "how to take a Grab car".
If you have not downloaded the apps you may download it from here: "Uber Apps" and "Grab Apps"

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