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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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…
Norman Macrae on telecommunications as transport, work revolution
Telecommunications are now recognised as the third of the three great transport revolutions that have, in swift succession, transformed society…
Michael Shear’s Rx for the increasingly congested commute and improved access to knowledge jobs
The biggest challenges facing metro regions are transportation and traffic congestion, accessible well-paying employment opportunities and affordable housing. In 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…
The astonishing human potential wasted on commutes – The Washington Post
According to the Census, there were a little over 139 million workers commuting in 2014. At an average of 26…
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…
25 years later, traffic paradox continues to bedevil SF Bay Area
A quarter of a century ago, I witnessed firsthand the emergence of a robust information and communications technology (ICT) industry…
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…
Silicon Valley stuck in the Industrial Age
“I think back to the situation when Yahoo disbanded telecommuting,” Allen says. “Marissa Mayer caught a lot of flak for…