Pause for a second. Fast forward into the future… five, 10, 15 years from today. Now imagine your mobile and internet connections are so seamlessly interwoven, that you no longer have to commute to the office to do your job effectively. Where you laugh with your friends at the old days of hitting a Wi-Fi black spot. When you can barely remember what it felt like to lose mobile signal at the crucial moment.

Imagination running riot? Absolutely not. This is where we could be in 2020, and it’s explored in full by Orange’s Connected Britain report, published today.

So how will this ‘connected’ age impact our work and home lives? Futurologist James Bellini believes we are moving, full pelt, towards an era where online communities and web-based networks sustain a continual ‘conversation’. To you and us that means being able to access everything you need online and through your mobile, from anywhere in the world, at anytime of the day and night.

This seachange in communications is exciting, oh yes it is. But why? Because it represents a move from the traditional 9-5 office-based working environment, to an agile and flexible way of working that can suit our own individual needs, without compromising our ability to do a great job for the boss. In essence, it is empowering all of us to do our jobs when, where and how suits us.

Many of us like to work from home sometimes, right? And if you don’t, perhaps you would. Whether it’s because you’ve got a stack of admin to get through, or you’ve got sprogs that need seeing to, there are a myriad of ways in which working remotely can help us all harmonise that tricky spirit level called the ‘work/life balance’.

Which begs the question: if you could work remotely some or all of the time, would you live somewhere different? Would you stay put, or would you be packing up and heading to the coast before you can say ‘speedy broadband’?

Of course, not everyone wants to leave the bright lights of the city behind. But we would hazard a guess that many would change location if it promised a more productive and contented working life. And this would all be possible because of that global, ongoing ‘conversation’ James Bellini talks about.

Here at The Feed we’re fascinated by the impact a Connected Britain will have on our ability to connect and communicate with each other, and ultimately be happier people. What it means to us is that better connectivity could help us to realise great potential, together.

So what value would you put on connectivity? Would you stay put; ship out to the countryside; work from home some or perhaps all of the time? It’s an exciting time we’re living in, so get commenting and tell us how you think a Connected Britain would transform your life.