Monday, May 13, 2013

Post-Sedentary Space

This article discusses the new public, personal, and professional spaces have evolved with the internet and connectivity. First he discussed the office, using Dilbert as and example, he began explaining that even in the comic Dilbert had a PC at his desk along with a desk phone. With the internet and mobile devices the office space was changed significantly. The professional world could new bleed into the personal and public world. With phones and email people workers can function outside of the office while still working. From personal experience telecommuting changed my Friday's because I was able to come home and see my mom after school. When before she started telecommuting on Friday's she would not get home till five or six at night, with telecommuting she could be working and spending time with her family in the afternoon she didn't have before. Next Mitchell discusses how banking and amazon changed the face of money and department stores.  Banking can now be done at "home" as he put it or now can be done on a mobile phone. The only reason I go to the bank now is to deposit checks, and even now banks are finding ways to deposit checks without having to go to the bank, all you have to do is take a picture of it and send the image to the online mobile banking site. Amazon changed the face of shopping during the dot-com era because who needed to go to the big department stores anymore when you could find anything you possibly desired on one website. To this day I still go to Amazon to buy items, books and computer accessories mostly, especially being in college in a town where not all the stores that you could need are available websites have made the biggest change in my shopping needs. The Post-sedentary space has changed the world of pubic, personal, and professional spaces and began to blur the lines between them, making it more accessible to communicate between those spaces.

Question: Do you think that eventually the lines between the public, personal, and professional spaces will be erased because it is becoming easier to access all of these parts of life all of the time?

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