Luke Casey examines the impact of the microprocessor in the workplace. Already, the adoption of word processors and text editing software in offices has been shown to provide massive efficiency boosts. Could sophisticated networking systems – using existing telephone wires to allow microprocessors to communicate with one another – spell the end of office work altogether, enabling employees to work effectively from home?
There is some remarkably prophetic stuff in this report.
This clip is from Nationwide, originally broadcast 11 December, 1979.
00:00 The inefficient office
01:14 What is a word processor?
02:44 Floppy disks
03:15 Wordplex system in Bradford Council
04:24 Home working with networked word processors
07:05 Micropad
07:54 Author Cy Enfield’s Microwriter
09:29 The end of the Industrial Revolution?
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