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The 40-Hour Work Wee |
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| Futurists 50 years ago were projecting a 20-hour work week in the United States and Western Europe by the dawn of the 21st century. In most developed nations, their predictions have proven directionally correct: total work time has moved downward. |
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Off-Shoring the Know |
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| Although we��셶e just explained that there is little reason to worry about off-shoring low-skilled, low-paying jobs that will be automated anyway, many observers are even more anxious about this related trend. Many companies are starting to off-shore some of their highly-skilled technical jobs to overseas providers. |
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Software Wars Challe |
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| The Massachusetts computer and software industry is legendary. |
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Membership in Virtua |
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| Enormous increases in processing power and bandwidth are blurring the lines between the real world and the virtual one. As work, education, government, and entertainment have moved on-line, the barriers of space and time that formerly marked different parts of people��셲 lives have disappeared. Virtual work teams, telecommuting, long-distance learning, and electronic shopping for many have resulted in an ��쏿nything, anywhere, anytime��� lifestyle, in which formerly distinct areas of people��셲 lives are now intertwined in cyberspace. People��셲 lives and their relationships with others are increasingly taking place in this electronic reality. As a result, digital technology has transformed the personal and public lives of most Americans over the past 15 years. |
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Home Automation and |
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| During the PC era, the nexus of info-tech innovation was business, especially in the office. As we enter ��쐔he post-PC era,��� the nexus of innovation is shifting to the consumer, especially in the home. And this digital home is where most technological innovation will occur over the next five years in the $101 billion consumer electronics industry. |
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