Toward the Electronic Office (1981) / Chapter Skim
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System Technology, Present and Trends
System Technology, Present and Trends
Pages 21-32
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You will also hear from three leading edge organizations who have begun to install what has been generically called the "office of the future". What I would like to discuss with you today are four topics: First, what is happening with technology and its potential to provide solutions for office systems; second, what I see as the office application and where we are today; third, the challenges we face in the future both as vendors and as organizations implementing office systems; and lastly, the potential I see for totally integrated office systems in the future.
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You don't have to look very far to recognize that electronic filing offers massive productivity benefits. The average secretary makes over 5,OOO copies of documents per year, many of which end up in redundant files which must be maintained, updated, purged, and stored away in archives.
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From the original mechanical typewriter came the electronic typewriter and the ability to store key strokes electronically on magnetic cards or on disks. Recent technology has implemented display based word processing systems.
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Given that as an applications oriented scenario and as a view of where the products are in support of the application, where are we really today? Well, there are over eight million electric typewriters installed today and over 350,OOO display based word processors.
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For example, in the upper left-hand side of Figure 4 is a logo, which is graphical information; data, the name and address from a host data file; the text that has been keyed in by the secretary; business graphics that are created by the system as a result of complex calculations performed by a computer program, and an image which is the individual's signature; and a voice annotation or a buck slip, because a professional needs the ability to electronically pass a document he has received to someone else with his comments annoted by voice. He would also electronically file the document with the voice message.
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My message this morning has been a simple one, to ask you to take a view of the office beyond the paper-shuffling, beyond the faster typing and the clean-up-the-files approach; to view the office of the future in terms of the administration of our businesses. Efforts to restructure our business offices, already started by some and contemplated by most everyone, offer dramatic potential for increased productivity.
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