Virtual Work Space
21 Dog Years at Amazon.com, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Steal this Computer Book 3, and Granny @ Work were the books that had connections to work, economy, capitalism or globalization in some ways. The first one talked about a 21st-century-slacker’s perception of the office space at one of the largest Internet companies; the second one looked at the many faces of globalization; the third one was connected to the implications of capitalism taking computer as central the object; and the last one pointed out how older women coped with using technology at work. Overall, all of them, in one way or another, had references to a work place that is getting increasingly virtual, where everything was becoming more electronic and boundaries of time and space took a new shape.Virtual Work Space extended the place we work outside of the offices and abolished the time limitations. It was with the means cyberspace provided us with, basically electronic communication, that the concept of 24/7 work time came about. It has been good to have access to communication and information anytime anywhere. Yet, it has also contradicted with the nature of taking a brake. That is, in a time where things were automated through IT and were expected to provide us with more time and space, we would actually not be able to have any brakes. In other words, Virtual Work Space came along with a paradox in itself.
All these made me understand that IT technologies may not always work the way we thought them to do.
Adaptation: Elif
posted by Prof G @ 3:14 AM
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