{"id":900,"date":"2006-05-10T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2006-05-18T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T23:14:50","slug":"future-workplaces-and-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Future Workplaces and Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone who is becoming increasingly virtualized, where I work – my office – is similarly evolving. I often generate concepts using a Wacom tablet, create virtual models in CAD software which get sent overseas for manufacturing, and process my paperwork in MS Office\/OpenOffice. I’ve had a 3D virtual office – of a sort – inside Second Life<\/a> since last year, but security issues keep me from exploiting the potential of that space for now. So basically I’m caught in two worlds, and because of that I find all of this to be a bit of a mess. Actually, a big mess. Change usually is and this is all a pretty big change from what I did only a few years ago.<\/p>\n

So it’s with obvious interest that I caught a slideshow on C|Net for “Microsoft’s workplace of the future (Link)<\/a>. On first look, I’m underwhelmed. Perhaps because it looks<\/em> like what I could do today and doesn’t get into some of the other things that are of greater concern. I’ll need to review it again though; perhaps after I give some additional thought to a new entry on Terra Nova, “The Virtual Office” (Link)<\/a>. If you’re in the same boat as me, you might want to give it a look and follow the comments – they’re usually well-informed and insightful. But right now I need to get some food. My avatar is hungry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As someone who is becoming increasingly virtualized, where I work – my office – is similarly evolving. I often generate concepts using a Wacom tablet, create virtual models in CAD software which get sent overseas for manufacturing, and process my … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}