The prediction, in brief:

The development of new tools for distributed work could enable new forms of collaboration, allowing employees to work more effectively at any location that is mutually agreeable to them and their employers. One result could be new, more productive configurations of people, processes and technology.

Predictor: Kraut, Robert E.

Prediction, in context:

In a 1994 report for the Technology and Telecommuting Issues and Impacts Committee, commissioned by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, chairman Robert Kraut makes the following statement:”Computing, telecommunications and related technologies are profoundly changing the ways in which society acquires, manages and distributes information. In the private sector, the development of new tools for distributed work could enable new forms of collaboration, allowing employees to work more effectively at any location that is mutually agreeable to them and their employers. One result could be new, more productive configurations of people, processes and technology.”

Date of prediction: January 1, 1994

Topic of prediction: Economic structures

Subtopic: Telecommuting

Name of publication: Research Recomendations: To Facilitate Distributed Work

Title, headline, chapter name: Preface

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://stills.nap.edu/html/distr_work/preface.html

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Krout, Kevin M.