The Human Workplace

October 22, 2006 · Chris Messina

My thesis is that just as the advent of the steam engine eventually turned all our organizations into quasi machines and turned most people into helpless zombies, so the advent of the web has the power to restore our metaphor of the organization to the Tribe and hence has the power also to transform us poor old zombies back into autonomous human beings again.

Robert Paterson, via Steven Garrity.

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