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- By Mark Micheli
- February 5, 2013
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During a 1967 broadcast of the CBS show, “The 21st Century,” the most trusted man in America reveals he was all about telework before it was cool (or possible).
“With equipment like this in the home of the future, we may not have to go to work,” said Cronkite, showing off what a home office in 2001 might look like. “The work would come to us. In the 21st Century it may be that no home will be complete without a computerized communications console.”
Pretty spot on, actually. Clearly, Walter Cronkite was a Time Lord. Though, after looking at that “communications console,” is it just me or is the future way cooler than anyone predicted?
Mark Micheli is the Special Projects Editor of Government Executive, editor of Excellence in Government Online and former Program Manager of the Government Business Council. Prior to his current roles, he worked on national security and emergency management issues with the US Treasury Department. He’s worked as a political research analyst, a correspondent for the Des Moines Register at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He studied at Drake University where he has degrees in Magazine Journalism, Political Science and History.
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