PROPHECY
You know what's terrifying about the following?
Panasonic's Future Life Factory is developing wearable blinkers, designed to limit your sense of sound and sight, and help you focus on what's directly in front of you.
The prototype device, called Wear Space, is designed to keep people distraction-free when working in busy spaces or open-plan offices by blocking them off from their immediate surroundings.
Panasonic hopes that by using the partition to cut the user's horizontal field of vision by about 60 per cent, it will encourage them to concentrate on the work in front of them.
"As open offices and digital nomads are on the rise, workers are finding it ever more important to have personal space where they can focus," said the company. "Wear Space instantly creates this kind of personal space – it's as simple as putting on an article of clothing."
Scott Adams predicted it twenty-two years ago.
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Those open offices are awful. They become the rage every few years, and people hate them, and the company has to pay to change the office space, and eight or ten years later they do it again, having forgotten how awful it was.
Extraverts are too easily distracted by the other people, and introverts just hate the space altogether.
When I was in sixth grade, progressive education was all the rage and my school district got on board. Two schools in the district, mine and one other, were designated as "demonstration" schools that any kid anywhere in the district could attend. Almost no one outside my school's area chose to send their kids there.
Anyway, at those two schools, any progressive education fad that any ed major could dream up was tried out there. Literally. We kids were lab rats that year and one of the idiocies they imposed on us was "open classrooms." They came in and tore down all the walls between the classrooms for some reason. If adults had a problem with them, think how us little kids, who had been taught the old-fashioned way our entire lives, fared with them.
To put it mildly, that entire year was a joke, what I refer to as the year I got to take off from school. The program was so successful that the district closed both those schools a few years later.
Probably had nothing to do with the program though. Sarcasm off.
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