"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Work

Trolling through BWeek and here are a couple of interesting pieces

On the "deconstruction" of the workplace, with mobile "neo-bedouin" workers (using technology to untether) working from anywhere/anywhen rather than a formal office.
Square Feet. Oh, How Square!

On morphing of "massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs)" into realworld related activities.
Interview with Kevin Werbach
At the Tech-Business Interface
Note that Kevin's "Supernova 2006" was on LindenLab's 2nd Life as well as "meat space"

Put the two together - working in "virtual worlds"
"What we're seeing in these virtual labs are emerging collaborative structures built into the games, new ways to interact and collaborate. Today that's a bunch of twentysomethings trying to kill a dragon. Tomorrow that's going to be a project team at a pharmaceutical company or a social organization of people interacting in different ways."

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