Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Future Workplaces, Future Humans
Lately, for some unknown reason, I’m starting to hear more talk about the office of the future. Maybe people’s minds have jumped from the end of the summer to the end of the year in one fantastic leap – December is when this topic usually rears its head. Future offices, even ones in use just five years from now, will be packed with technologies that we can’t imagine today. Future offices will also have people in them, at least some people some of the time. And the people in those offices will have brains and psychological profiles very much like ours, for the lifetimes of any buildings being built today, anyway. Our brains and how they work evolve slowly, very, very, very, slowly, at about the same rate as the Grand Canyon gets deeper. Since the same sorts of brains will work in both today’s workplaces and in those for …
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