Office of the Future

[Jodimyatt]

Two IT Solution Designers there partners, A hardware engineer and a fashion designer his girlfriend, and Myself and my partner went out, for a meal this evening, as a birthday treat for me.

As a virtual reality programmer by trade one of them brought up his idea to be that you could put on a V.R helmet and go shopping on line put walk into shop exactly the same as your local shopping center, put items in your basket then go to the tills, all virtually of course.

This got us all taking and putting our knowledge and experience into suggesting the office for the future. We decide against working from home as you need some human interaction.

Suggests where as wild as clothing i.e. cuff links with blue tooth and storage in them so your clothes carry your data, therefore no more disks etc.

Just wondered if anyone else has ever thought about this, and wheater it is worth building prototypes of some of our feasible ideas tonight.

 

[Alpha]

Hi Jodi

Yes I have been thinking about this for some time not only in relation to office but also school as well.

As far as the office is concerned, why can it not be run from home?
The biggest area that we are currently being held back on is BT's antiquated infrastructure. If they were able to replace all the current infrastructure with fibre optic cabling then we could all have broadband running at speeds far greater than now. This would bring the capabilities of video conferencing to everyone. We could interact for the majority of our time via the internet (If you wanted to you could probably have a 3 D representation of everyone.

The economy still depends upon a manufacturing base but much of the interaction can be done via those systems.

Vitual secretaries will be be able to interact with their clients, documents can be distributed via without requiring them to print first (may even save a rainforest)

The power usage from running all those computers may be offset by the savings in all the journeys by car/train/aeroplane to the office. Much of the current congestion will be removed.

Socialising will become even more important but quality will be important.

Banks will move into the 19th century and transactions will be realtime. No requirements for cash so less to be mugged for as credit is held centrally and activated by retinal scans.(Cant be by finger print as too easy to get fingers cut off for unattended activation)

Well thats my tomorrows world pitch distilled!!