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A bit similar to the answer by Goodies, but focussing on the paper-pushers:

Assume that all the mindless paper-pushers and corporate drones have been replaced by computers. Call them AI, or just expert systems, they do the routine stuff. What that leaves are at least slightly creative corporate drones. They don't get a call from their boss, "fire the ten workers in that factory with the most sick days," they get to figure out how the scheduled maintenance downtime can be reduced by 0.7%, without spending more money or doing anything to hurt next quarter's bottom line.

At least today, creative meetings work much better in person. Doing them remotely takes a lot of skill and practice. Shifting icons on a screen has some advantages over shifting sticky notes on a wall, but it is not the same. And then the doorbell rings and the speaker has to take a parcel for the neighbour, who isn't answering his bell.

Perhaps your science-fictional implants come with the capability to do a "just like we're in a room" experience. But how much is the transmission delay, and what does that do to social interactions? And if the meeting in person is more effective, the next question would be if it is more expensive, and if so who pays the cost. It could be that a company can get officer drones cheaper (or better employees for the same money) if they allow remote work. Or the job market is such that the office drones commute on their own time and expense, and are glad about the opportunity.

Imagine the signal getting encrypted at one end, routed through an internet-like connection, and decrypted at the other end. Bandwidth is good but not unlimited. What if the signal is bounced through a commo sat rather than 'risking' ground cables, or through the central server at corporate HQ even for conferences 'in' a regional office? If each connection has as lag of 0.1 seconds, people are 0.2 seconds out of sync.

A bit similar to the answer by Goodies, but focussing on the paper-pushers:

Assume that all the mindless paper-pushers and corporate drones have been replaced by computers. Call them AI, or just expert systems, they do the routine stuff. What that leaves are at least slightly creative corporate drones. They don't get a call from their boss, "fire the ten workers in that factory with the most sick days," they get to figure out how the scheduled maintenance downtime can be reduced by 0.7%, without spending more money or doing anything to hurt next quarter's bottom line.

At least today, creative meetings work much better in person. Doing them remotely takes a lot of skill and practice. Shifting icons on a screen has some advantages over shifting sticky notes on a wall, but it is not the same. And then the doorbell rings and the speaker has to take a parcel for the neighbour, who isn't answering his bell.

Perhaps your science-fictional implants come with the capability to do a "just like we're in a room" experience. But how much is the transmission delay, and what does that do to social interactions? And if the meeting in person is more effective, the next question would be if it is more expensive, and if so who pays the cost. It could be that a company can get officer drones cheaper (or better employees for the same money) if they allow remote work. Or the job market is such that the office drones commute on their own time and expense, and are glad about the opportunity.

A bit similar to the answer by Goodies, but focussing on the paper-pushers:

Assume that all the mindless paper-pushers and corporate drones have been replaced by computers. Call them AI, or just expert systems, they do the routine stuff. What that leaves are at least slightly creative corporate drones. They don't get a call from their boss, "fire the ten workers in that factory with the most sick days," they get to figure out how the scheduled maintenance downtime can be reduced by 0.7%, without spending more money or doing anything to hurt next quarter's bottom line.

At least today, creative meetings work much better in person. Doing them remotely takes a lot of skill and practice. Shifting icons on a screen has some advantages over shifting sticky notes on a wall, but it is not the same. And then the doorbell rings and the speaker has to take a parcel for the neighbour, who isn't answering his bell.

Perhaps your science-fictional implants come with the capability to do a "just like we're in a room" experience. But how much is the transmission delay, and what does that do to social interactions? And if the meeting in person is more effective, the next question would be if it is more expensive, and if so who pays the cost. It could be that a company can get officer drones cheaper (or better employees for the same money) if they allow remote work. Or the job market is such that the office drones commute on their own time and expense, and are glad about the opportunity.

Imagine the signal getting encrypted at one end, routed through an internet-like connection, and decrypted at the other end. Bandwidth is good but not unlimited. What if the signal is bounced through a commo sat rather than 'risking' ground cables, or through the central server at corporate HQ even for conferences 'in' a regional office? If each connection has as lag of 0.1 seconds, people are 0.2 seconds out of sync.

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o.m.
  • 117.4k
  • 13
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  • 399

A bit similar to the answer by Goodies, but focussing on the paper-pushers:

Assume that all the mindless paper-pushers and corporate drones have been replaced by computers. Call them AI, or just expert systems, they do the routine stuff. What that leaves are at least slightly creative corporate drones. They don't get a call from their boss, "fire the ten workers in that factory with the most sick days," they get to figure out how the scheduled maintenance downtime can be reduced by 0.7%, without spending more money or doing anything to hurt next quarter's bottom line.

At least today, creative meetings work much better in person. Doing them remotely takes a lot of skill and practice. Shifting icons on a screen has some advantages over shifting sticky notes on a wall, but it is not the same. And then the doorbell rings and the speaker has to take a parcel for the neighbour, who isn't answering his bell.

Perhaps your science-fictional implants come with the capability to do a "just like we're in a room" experience. But how much is the transmission delay, and what does that do to social interactions? And if the meeting in person is more effective, the next question would be if it is more expensive, and if so who pays the cost. It could be that a company can get officer drones cheaper (or better employees for the same money) if they allow remote work. Or the job market is such that the office drones commute on their own time and expense, and are glad about the opportunity.