The music collection which today sits physically on a shelf will in future be deposited digitally in a locker system , and you ll be able to access it wherever you happen to be at the time. You d see them through data goggles and touch and operate them using data gloves. But in fact they d only be programs running in a small, portable universal device. People who try to program Artificial Intelligence, only end up with natural stupidity. Artificial Intelligence is just another word for bad design.
Computers confine their users to an office chair, resulting in fatigue and health problems.
Now ergonomists want to incorporate the computer into a world of adventure and so produce a creative boost. The researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have set out to tackle the problem of office stiffness in front of the computer on a fundamental level. First of all they want to get computer operators moving around, so they have breached the territorial concept which has always been a ruling principle inside offices. In their concept Office 21 office workers don t have a desk of their own. In a future additional stage of the ergonomic, interactive office, the researchers at the Institute want to enhance brainstorming among colleagues on a virtual level.