Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.
You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.
I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.
I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.