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My personal opinion is that the need to physically be at your job will only diminish in the future. I honestly believe that VR will eventually offer a lot of po
by Omniusaspirer 12y ago
My personal opinion is that the need to physically be at your job will only diminish in the future. I honestly believe that VR will eventually offer a lot of potential for virtual office spaces that give you the illusion of being there but let you sit comfortably at home.
Of course I may just be a dreamer and we'll continue to see housing prices skyrocket as we try to cram 10's of millions of people into small geographical areas- I'm certainly not dismissing that possibility.
- amirmc 12y agoWe were promised paperless offices decades ago and we're still nowhere close. Right now we can barely get video-conferencing done properly. Hence, I doubt VR will help us anytime soon.
- ptaipale 12y agoI don't think it was a promise, more like a prediction. And it is becoming true, I think. At least in my line of work (engineering, software, telecoms, security) shuffling papers has decreased a lot over the past 15 years. National legislation sometimes slows this development, e.g. by insisting on having a paper with a signature and possibly even a stamp. As usual, we tend to overestimate how quickly the changed happens in short-term (hence "the broken promise"), but we also underestimate the social impact this change has (we don't just replace paper with electronic forms, we change the way we work and it changes businesses profoundly.)
- prawn 12y agoI agree with you about virtual offices, but I think social lives will still mean that people want to live near their family or friends. In an office with desk jobs, physical contact is almost never required, and so virtual spaces will be realistic far sooner. When it comes to friends and family where there is far more nuance in our interactions, I think it will take longer.