By: David Polinchock
I like the way that trendwatching.com has updated their TRANSUMER definition to include the whole concept of experience.
With experiences starting to trump goods, many fixed items run the risk of becoming synonymous with boredom, with hassle, with quickly-out-of-date, with maintenance, with taking up too large a part of budgets, if not lives. Which brings us to a new definition of TRANSUMERS:
TRANSUMERS are consumers driven by experiences instead of the ‘fixed’, by entertainment, by discovery, by fighting boredom, who increasingly live a transient lifestyle, freeing themselves from the hassles of permanent ownership and possessions. The fixed is replaced by an obsession with the here and now, an ever-shorter satisfaction span, and a lust to collect as many experiences and stories as possible.* Hey, the past is, well, over, and the future is uncertain, so all that remains is the present, living for the ‘now’.
Link: trendwatching.com: November 2006 trend briefing on TRANSUMERS.
Original Post: http://blog.brandexperiencelab.org/experience_manifesto/2006/11/trendwatchingco.html
