{"id":1893,"date":"2010-06-18T15:09:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2010-06-18T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:09:29","slug":"silicon-millenarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/silicon-millenarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon millenarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here we go again! We have another blogger predicting the end of the office<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Funny how it’s almost always bloggers and journalists and thinktank-swimmers doing this – always people whose work, most of the time, is by themselves, and who therefore fail to understand the nature of actual work in modern organizations.\u00a0\u00a0 As I’ve argued before<\/a>, workplace interactions are primarily about the co-ordination of actions and the assessment of people’s intentions concerning these actions, not (or not merely) about sharing information.\u00a0 Why did Barack Obama summon the Chairman and CEO of BP to the Oval Office earlier this week?\u00a0 Why was the CEO also called to testify before Congress?\u00a0\u00a0 Why didn’t the President or the Congressional Committee simply place a conference call?\u00a0 Because it is very difficult, perhaps even impossible, to accurately assess another person’s intentions without immediate physical proximity and face-to-face interaction with said person.
\nIf all you are doing is writing a blog or researching a story, perhaps you don’t ever appreciate this fact about work.\u00a0 But anyone tasked with doing something other than writing knows it.\u00a0\u00a0 Seth Goodin thinks that within 10 years TV programs about office work will seem to be “quaint antiques”.\u00a0 I bet him they will not at all.\u00a0 Moreover, I bet the people in those offices will still be using paper, still having meetings, and still talking by the water-cooler.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, while you’re placing my bets, put me down for 100 years, not 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we go again! We have another blogger predicting the end of the office.\u00a0\u00a0 Funny how it’s almost always bloggers and journalists and thinktank-swimmers doing this – always people whose work, most of the time, is by themselves, and who therefore fail to understand the nature of actual work in modern organizations.\u00a0\u00a0 As I’ve argued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30,40,66,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-culture","category-getting-things-done-intelligence","category-joint-action-society","category-project-management","category-prophecy","p1","y2010","m06","d18","h15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}