Cronkite, in 1967, accurately describes 21st Century home office

[Aldo Leopold]

Video on HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/walter-cronkite-21st-century-home-office_n_2663609.html

Nearly a half-century before working from home landed its own acronym ("WFH&quot , Walter Cronkite envisioned a world in which "we may not have to go to work, the work would come to us."

A video from the 1960's that recently surfaced on Reddit shows the legendary anchorman, known as "the most trusted man in America," touring a "21st century home office."

"Here's a mock-up of a possible future telephone," Cronkite says in the video. "If I want to see the people I'm talking with, I just turn the button and there they are." Skype's co-founder, Niklas Zennström, was just one-year-old when this clip originally hit the airwaves.

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I wonder if viewers at the time scoffed at this.

[xoom]

1. That's awesome!!

I wonder what the next 50 years will bring?

[el_bryanto]

3. well - probably even longer days

I mean without travel time or need to run out for lunch, why can't employees work 10-12 hours a day? And since they are more efficient - one person can do the work of three - those other two can just find something else to do.

Bryant

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. So true! I always spy on my wife and kids (who are at home, too) while I'm working in my home office

[CTyankee]

4. That's pretty incredible, envisioning a small PC. Weren't the first computers huge

and kept in separate climate controlled rooms at separate buildings? I seem to recall the discussions about "mainframe" and one of my earliest work situations actually had a separate room for The Computer, run by a separate staff.

The idea of a desk top PC didn't become practical for most people until the 1980s. I recall my little Apple...

[Chiyo-chichi]

5. video...

As the top YouTube commenter wrote -- all that stuff now fits in our pocket... and we mainly use it to share pictures of cats.

[Nye Bevan]

6. He's got online news feeds and weather, real-time stock prices, flat-screen monitors,

and Skype.

So much more accurate than flying cars and personal jet-packs.