Open Offices Were Onto Something — But They Need Mature Ambient Compute to Work
curious_vii · x · 2026-09-07
The author argues that open offices failed in practice but correctly gestured at a better layout where productivity emerges from serendipitous exchanges — and that this vision requires mature ambient compute to actually function.
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