The New Era of Office Valuations: A Collaborative Approach,
London
17 March 2025
More information
Holistic Wellbeing: Aligning People, Purpose and Place,
London
18 March 2025
More information
Workhuman Live Forum,
London
19 March 2025
More information
Designing for Neuroinclusivity in the Workplace Event by HOK,
Online
19 March 2025
More information
EXPLORE THE FUTURE TRENDS IN SMART TECHNOLOGIES,
London
25 March 2025
More information
Business Innovation Summit,
London
26 March 2025
More information
Hybrid isn’t working - but we can fix it,
Online
26 March 2025
More information
The Impact Summit 2025 - Organised by Women In Change,
London
27 March 2025
More information
February 11, 2013
Video: The 21st Century Office – how the BBC got it all wrong in 1969
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Facilities management, Furniture, Technology, Workplace design
[embedplusvideo height=”200″ width=”230″ standard=”https://www.youtube.com/v/HnMjoitdRRM?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=HnMjoitdRRM&width=230&height=200&start=&stop=210&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep8335″ /]
Two days ago we published a strikingly prescient report from Walter Cronkite dating from 1967 about how the world of work would look in the 21st century. Two years later the BBC was to get things hopelessly wrong, not only with its tired and misguided wannabe existentialism, but also with its vision of a future which was clearly just a slightly mechanised plasticky version of the present. That’s often the problem with futurology. It tells you more about the time in which people are making their predictions than any real vision of what is to come.