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Are you one of the zillions of people whose work routine is to leave the house, walk down to the corner, buy a $3 cup of espresso-based coffee, find a table and power up your laptop, and log onto a wireless internet?

You mean that was you at the table next to me? Nice shoes.

In the old days, you got your cup of coffee at the diner, along with a slice of homemade apple pie, served by a friendly, mothering, gum-chomping waitress named Madge, clad in her pale pink and white uniform. You remember: she always licked her pencil tip before scribbling your order.

Today, you walk into a café - we’ll arbitrarily call it AstralMoney - and order your customized coffee and its size in Italian.

The workforce is increasingly mobile - and that presents some wonderful, interesting opportunities for you. As you search for businesses to buy on Acquireo, keep in mind that there so many profitable underlying long-term trends as the world continues to find curiouser and curiouser ways to define itself and the individuals within it seek to find their freedom of self-expression. AstralMoney customers telecommute to the corner café Monday through Friday and order a no-foam, no-fat, triple soy, back-flip latte - instead of punching a clock. The café is their work place, and they show up in great numbers to the great benefit of AstralMoney Corporation cafes across the land.

The conversion to electronic versions of everything, from banking and books to grocery shopping. The increasing shift in responsibility solely to the individual for his or own welfare and decision making, such as retirement investment management. The increasing mass customization of jeans and music and cell phone ringtones and web portal experiences as technology opens new distribution channels while bringing costs down, down, down.

We’re talking big-picture stuff here, folks. You can bring those big-picture ideas into any business for sale on Acquireo. Where did you get big-picture ideas? How about from books by futurists? My favorite futurist is Alvin Toffler.

In short, don’t see things as they are; see them as they can be.

In 1960, a microwave oven in the home would have blown people’s minds. Today, its necessity in the kitchen for quick reheating is unquestionable. Is it too far to imagine a subscription-based customized coffee delivered daily to your kitchen teleporter?