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Monday, January 14, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/14/technology/14NECO.html A Vision of the Office of the Future By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH WANT to know what the workplace may be like in a few years if I.B.M. and Steelcase have it right? Let's say, for easy description, your name is Jamie James. You walk into your cubicle and the electronic name plaque on the outside wall switches from "Jamie is out" to "Jamie is in." And a signal light, visible from anywhere on the floor, morphs from blue to green. An electronic sensor, picking up signals from a chip embedded in your ID card, adjusts the desk chair, the table, even the temperature, to just the way you like them....
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