The Future of Corporate Work

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The Future of Corporate Work

• Work Environments, accessibility AND Learning

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Corporations Become ..

• Learning Organizations in which people at all
  levels, individually and collectively, are
  continually increasing their capacity to produce
  results they really care about.
• The student is an active part of a learning group
  but proceeds to learn and understand on an
  individual basis independent of the speed of
  other learners in the group. Where new and
  expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured,
  where collective aspiration is set free, and
  where people are continually learning to see the
  whole together.
• Where new and expansive patterns of thinking are
  nurtured, where collective aspiration is set
  free.
• Short time frame work groups emerge, engage in
  activities and corroborate and then dissolve.

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Environment

• Videoconferencing and telecommuting or
  teleworking are commonplace, people only go into
  work to meet other people.
• The office will be a townscape or social
  landscape. Corporations will provide an integral
  center offering employees work, leisure, health
  and consumer requirements.
• In these campus settings, many employees conduct
  meetings during lunch while others end up solving
  problems during informal discussions at the
  coffee bar or fitness club.

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Computers

• Computers will be able to speak in any language
  so it will be very easy for them to use
  Constraint Propogation to figure out whether
  you are saying the words correctly and correct
  you if you are not.
• Quantum computing,or the harnessing of atoms will
  create a computers processor and memory
  capabilities that will be used to create
  holographic storage, voice recognition, and
  molecular computing.
• Wireless computers and technology will become
  faster and lighter.
• Tools will transition from the mouse to a data
  glove that feels and senses everything and allows
  for more control.

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Professional Learning

• Learning is 24/7 Anytime, Anywhere, Anyway
• Learning will cease to be something delivered in
  chunks called 'classes' and become more something
  delivered when you need it by computer bots that
  will keep track of what a person has already
  mastered.
• Learning becomes learner centric rather than
  instructor based
• Webcasts, and Webinars are commonplace. Virtual
  classrooms presence Technologies stretch the
  limit of classrooms allowing holograms of people
  or a type of HDTV video thats as real as if you
  were standing in front of that person.
• Online models for asynchronous learning including
  Apprenticeship, Incidental, Inductive,
  Deductive-based, and Discovery based learning.
• Learning will be through cognitive pathways or
  sensory perceptions of the human mind such as
  taste, smell, vision, hearing and touch.
• Individual re-learns via constant informal
  material

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Networks

• Ultra-high-performance network
• BGAN, service-satellites will serve as
  switchboards in the sky. They will operating in
  globally assigned Ka-band spectrum, and employ
  high-performance, onboard digital processing,
  packet switching and spot-beam technology to
  offer direct site-to-site connectivity at rates
  of 512 Kbps and 2 Mbps for remote locations and
  up to 16 Mbps at larger locations. BGAN offers
  ubiquitous reach and efficient broadcast/multicast
  , with high data rates and mesh connectivityto
  give a fast, efficient, flexible and
  cost-effective communications solution.
• Networks work to support more demanding loads by
  acquiring other computers to help out.

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Information is

• Available anytime, anywhere, anyway (supporting
  nomadic work)
• Always accessible and Just in time to the user,
  AND is appropriately supported at all levels of
  detail.
• Information is flexible and personalized and
  often dependant on specific learning styles of
  the individual.

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Software is

• Specifically designed to support collaborative
  learning, including discussions, student
  presentations, joint projects, debates,
  role-playing games, etc
• The use of Interactive distance learning (IDL)
  systems provides access to a vast array of
  information, including digital libraries, data
  for analysis, and other people who provide
  information, feedback, and inspiration.

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References

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• http//www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,6913
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• Working on the Future Workers
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• Q A Divining the future of work
• Toni Kistner. Network World. Framingham Jun 21,
  2004.Vol.21, Iss. 25 pg. 71, 2 pg
• The New Wired World of Work A more transparent
  workplace will mean more white-collar
  accountability and less tolerance for hangers-on
• Tom Peters. Business Week. New York August 28,
  2000., Iss. 3696 pg. 172
• Military Tech Makes Travel Light
  http//www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35256-
  2,00.html
• Fast Track for Science Data
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• Experience Real Reality in 2021
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