Getting Personal: A Q&A with a PARC Pioneer Reflecting on "The Office of the Future" 40 Years Later

The days before every workstation came equipped with a PC, Internet  connection and e-mail can seem quaint to us now--a simpler time when the clacking of typewriters filled the air in office buildings, an instant message was walking over to someone's desk and talking to them, and file clerks were entrusted to organize and protect top secret information vaulted inside steel cabinets. Nevertheless, to a large extent, today's sprawling array of software apps, wireless gadgets and social networks owe their existence to a team of researchers that was assembled 40 years ago in California's fledgling Silicon Valley to envision and create "the office of the future". [More]











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