With all the hype surrounding new advances in information technology, what is truth and what i...

With all the hype surrounding new advances in information technology, what is truth and what is fiction? PAUL DUGUID (DO-good), co-author of –The Social Life of Information,— (Harvard Business School Press) helps us answer that question. DUGUID is a Research Associate in Social and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and consultant at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In their book, Duguid and co-author John Seely Brown, distinguish between the predictions of pundits and futurists (those who predicted that paper communication would be obsolete and home offices would be the norm,)and the reality of todays offices and work spaces. 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

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