"It is easier to move towards a talentless office rather than a paperless office."

We don't know what the office of the future will be. Prison guards processing papers of migrant slaves is one possible scenario.

Military cipher machines were precursors of the modern laptop.

Zombies with computer implants in the brain are a more docile vision of the future. Another dystopian future is where nanotechnology takes over, and the world eventually fills up with grey goo and no one can stop it.

Modern office bureaucracy is rather like this, with more and more meaningless documents and memos produced at great expense on computers far more powerful than those which ran the successful space programs of the 1970s and 80s.

IT literature almost becomes a contradiction in terms. It is easier to move towards a talentless office than a paperless office.

The whole point of modern IT is to drive down wages for the workers by de-skilling, while concentrating more power and money into the hands of consultants.

Intel Europe's official plan is to have the technology 'disappear', distancing people from the knowledge they claim to be empowering them with.

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