Webcast on "The Present and Future of Work". Present are:

* Thomas W. Malone: Author of the book "The Future of Work"

* Ray Ozzie: Founder, Chairman and CEO of Groove Networks, creator of Lotus Notes.

* John Stenbit: "recently retired chief information officer and assistant
secretary for command, control, communication and intelligence for the
Defense Department."

* Chris Thomas: "considered one of Intel's visionaries. He drives the key
e-business marketing and architecture activities within Intel."

* John Parkinson: VP and CTO for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in the Americas
Region.

Some gems from the webcast:

Chris Thomas: the Wifi world that we have created is obsolescing existing
software models. He uses the example of the remote worker over telephone
lines, who is in and out of communication. they need to constantly have
access to the information that they need. Moving from the central
monolithic datacenter, reversing the flow of information towards the edge of
the organization.

John Parkinson: You have to deal with people in the process. Hardly anyone
works alone now. We don't need places to find stuff, we have more than
enough of that. Technologies don't become powerful unless they are simple.

Ozzie talks about the future of programming jobs. Jobs will go to people
who are networked, connected to customers, etc.

The new age of the open organization: "nobody is as smart as everybody".

There are some interesting resources on the Groove site that go along with
the webcast:
http://www.groove.net/default.cfm?pagename=webcast_fow_resources

Definitely worth the hour long presentation.