"Many activities are underway to apply technology to the office to achieve
improved productivity. This paper discusses advances in telecommunications
technology and how they can be applied to the office environment.
Trends in technology are discussed but predictions are avoided. Earlier,
scientists and engineers have succumbed to the temptation to predict the
future with poor results. Thomas Tredgold, in 1835, said, ""any general
system of conveying passengers at a velocity exceeding 10 miles per hour
or thereabouts is extremely improbable."" This railroad engineer failed to
foresee the bullet train travel ing from Tokyo to Osaka at over 100 miles per
hour."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (21st : 1984)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1231
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