Ok, does anyone else read J. D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts) in her "In Death" series? You have Eve Dallas, an Detective in the NY Police Department in 2032. They have cars that drive themselves, or that you can drive manually, you have PC's on your wrist, like a watch (called a PPC, personal palm computer), you can talk to any of them and they will display on the wall screens or on the desk screen, or even on the inside of the car windshield. They have a "drying tube" which you can use to dry off instead of a towel, and all your home items are voice activated (want lights on, call for lights on, and you can select the %, so first thing you can have lights on at 10%, or you can tell the shower to start shower, 95 degrees). You have an autochef that is pre-programmed for the foods you purchase and stock in it, and food is ready in minutes from it after ordering.
I'm thinking, take all of this and move it into the office environment, and we no longer have to manually type letters, etc. Blue tooth type items allows us to answer phones and speak to our pc's, in an office environment, to quicly move and adjust our work. Don't think admins will go away, though there may be fewer of them as more and more companies roll into the web-based offices... they will still want someone to answer those pesky callers who can't get the online site to work or just
have to speak to a real person... but some of these admins will be in an office and some will be in their homes doing admin work from home. I think it could be a great new world!
(And I really don't think J.D. Robb is too far out there for what she's written to actually be part of our future, not to far down the road!)
