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- Technology came around in
my life about 20 years ago,
and swept me away in
the internet business.
I was a digital nomad
and travelled the world
for quite some time
doing online travel
and a variety of businesses
and then found that perfect
community to really settle in
and sync and work in
a collaborate format.
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- Mountain Colab is a
co-working innovation center,
and we started it about
two and a half years ago
with a group of ten people,
and now we're up to about 50.
We've got biologists and
engineers and designers
and planners and builders and
then digital nomads of course,
plenty of those that come
in for different seasons,
whether they come in for a ski
season and then go back home.
Quite often, they wanna come
back, and that's because
of Revelstoke's charm.
What are you working on Nathan?
- I'm working on a wine website.
- Wine website? Cool.
So the future of
work for Revelstone
definitely involves
a lot of technology.
We have a tech strategy here,
one of the very few
small communities
with a tech strategy,
and I'm the chair of
our tech team there,
and it's a great group.
It begins to unravel
What Revelstoke wants
out of technology,
what it can get out of
diversifying the economy.
It definitely includes
a lot of the youth,
where youth may have had
to leave this community
to get other employment
opportunities.
We've got a great
youth network here,
and trying to figure out exactly
what they wanna do in life.
You know, you can
go onto twitter
and hashtag the future of work
and really read a lot
of people's impressions
of what that is
around the world.
In our community,
it's different.
We've got a lot of existing
traditional industries
that will definitely evolve,
like I firmly believe
the wood products
industry is sustainable.
It's one that will
live on forever,
but we have to work
together on making sure
that it's gonna evolve
with technology,
so we have one of
the most modern
cedar mills in North America.
Eventually, it will
be all row lots.
So it would be nice if we were
actually part of that process
and working on
building robotics here.
Living in a mountain town
is really wonderful.
Yeah, they're isolated
here, for sure.
That creates a very
strong community of people
that are dedicated and it's
a good, strong community
to call home.
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