“I’ll be able to call up documents from my files on the screen, or by pressing a button,” he said. “I can get my mail or any messages. I don’t know how much hard copy [printed paper] I’ll want in this world,” he said.
In 1975, BusinessWeek magazine published a story on the office of the future and it made some uncanny predictions.
George E Pake, former head of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), envisioned offices in the year 1995 to be places with “TV-display terminals with keyboards would sit on workers’ desks in the place of typewriters, with collections of these electronic terminals linked to each other and to electronic filing cabinets”.
