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Making lifestyle adjustments to benefit the Anthropocene are fundamental for human survival. Whilst the powers of twenty-first century communications systems are celebrated there is a cautionary story needed to set the scene for global advancement. Humans are the custodians of planet earth and dependent on its resources for survival. Networking and communication advances assist the monitoring processes for making possible the survival of the planet and its flora and fauna.

This chapter examines current information technology trends, including mobile, wearable and distributed computing, social networks, crowdsourcing, the Internet-of-Things, and social machines, and discuss their current and potential incremental and transformative influence on daily life and work using such technology. We outline several scenarios of working life, and raise questions and issues about the future of the working life.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are transforming the engagement of citizens in political life at local, regional, national and international levels. Citizenship can be framed in nationally bounded constitutional and legal terms. It can also be framed in a discourse that is not bounded by national boundaries; ICTs facilitate communication between persons and groups who share a common language and sets of concerns. Gender equality, terrorist activity and statelessness are three global issues that highlight changing citizenship issues in the global village and the information-rich global society.

Though developing continents such as Africa continue to be challenged by the prevalence of certain health related matters, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies seems to be promising in managing and monitoring a number of heath related diseases. The rapid growth of mobile phones, computers, and other social media devices in almost all cities and rural areas in Africa has been the catalyst for this change. The use of m-Health and e-Health care strategies developed in tandem with industrialised countries has increasingly contributed to improvements in healthcare. Illustrative are m-Health applications in Africa with particular reference to its use during the recent Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone.

Access to mobile technologies is transforming the daily lives of poor subsistence farmers in Papua New Guinea. However, the success of this access depends on infrastructure and where connectivity is poor there is evidence of a digital divide. Nevertheless, increasing affordability of internet access is helping to bridge the development gap.

Commercial practices are being re-defined by disruptive innovations that are opening up new global and local markets. This chapter examines how changing technologies are creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs in both the developing and developed world. In the developing world, micro-finance and mobile technologies are linking the vulnerable to markets. In the developed world long-held monopolies in the banking, transport, and hotel industries are now subject to a more competitive market with the rise of new platforms such as the sharing economy, crypto-currencies, and crowd funding.

Health literacy is an increasingly important issue amongst scholars of health studies and medical practitioners. This essay seeks to understand how health knowledge is co-constructed by different agencies and the role of health communication in this process can contribute to everyday-ing health literacy. In addition, this essay attempts to understand how health communication becomes an everyday practice in identifying disease-specific needs.

Education is the vital tool for understanding the complexities of living within social structures—regardless of scale. Traditions that shaped the infrastructure of ancient communities leave a residue presence today in architectural, cultural, economic and political values and practices. The past helps us comprehend the rapid changes to the space, place and environment interactions associated with transport and communications developments. Nowadays time-space compression is reorganising our global networks and commodity flows. Understanding events in the twenty-first century requires communities to adjust but preserve their collective memory.

Interacting, networking and communicating are essential components of everyday life. Finding solutions for peaceful co-existence between all the world’s peoples is fundamental for better lives and the preservation of planet earth.