An emerging — and dubious — tradeoff: Making CCOs destinations worth the drive.
In his 1976 book, The Telecommunications-Transportation Tradeoff, Jack Nilles posited that telecommunications had evolved to the point it could substitute…
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ICT to reduce commute trips and associated vehicle emissions takes on greater urgency as U.N. report calls for “aggressive action” to cool global climate
Not long after the first Earth Day in April 1970, a Los Angeles aerospace engineer as engineers are wont to…
The commute conundrum and the California fuel tax increase
Getting knowledge workers off congested freeways by substituting the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for commuting was first…
Peter Thiel: ICT offers low cost, green solution to metro area transportation, housing challenges
Venture capitalist and PayPal founder Peter Thiel was recently interviewed on the Fox Business Network on the city of the…
Silicon Valley — of all places — is suffering from future shock
Alvin Toffler, the recently deceased futurist who authored the bestselling book Future Shock, is credited with coining that term. As…
Conversation with Jack Nilles, father of “telecommuting”
This episode features Jack Nilles, who coined the term “telecommuting” in the early 1970s –before the personal computer and well…
What Telecommuting Looked Like in 1973 – CityLab
Nilles’s solution to these contemporary concerns was telecommuting, but not quite telecommuting as we know it today—after all, this was…