It will continue to grow, while technology is able to provide great investing opportunities with fewer location barriers (AKA Roofstock).

I've often think of this too, as the RE industry SLOWLY moves into modern technology the automated data is sure to have faults.

Second, it appears online technology is your back ground so build off what you know. 

Hello, technology changes so fast I thought I would ask about locks again.

As someone in my twenties, I heavily rely on the capacity for communication that technology has given us; but I do not think it should entirely replace face to face relationships.

With a background in digital marketing, branding, and technology I am currently serving the a co-founder & COO to an event based social platform.

They have lots of experience with investors are they're good at using technology to make it all very easy for you. 

But the tools and the technology was already in place to utilize.

Technology allows us to exchange documents securely online.Browse this forum, and you will see about 20 tax accountants sharing knowledge here.

My hope is we may someday soon have a reverse trend of folks wanting to live in large cities and wanting to go rural again with the progression of technology (however it will likely take just as long for the re-population of rural America to happen again as it did for it to die - but we need more companies to embrace remote workers as we have the technology in a lot of positions within companies for many things to be done remotely, 2ndly we need driverless cars legal and working, 3rdly we'd need to rebuild some of the infrastructure or figure out a way (likely tax incentives) to get people to move back to these places so things like schools/banks/hospitals etc can reopen or be revived.