"There are a lot of jobs and more and more every day in our new economy that really can be done, for the most part, from anywhere.”
"We learned ... last year that we really could do online a lot of that which we used to think we had to come to the office … to do."
"It's not where we work that matters the most; it's how the work is done and who is doing it."
Today, what is the most intelligent species on our planet? According to Thomas Malone, the smartest entity ever known is groups of people.
“It's clearly desirable for people to have their office as close to their house as possible...as long as it's not in their house.”
Minglr, an open-source tool from a team led by Tom Malone, is designed to connect attendees at virtual conferences for brief video conversations.
Tom Malone refused to believe that water-cooler conversations were dead, so he developed Minglr, an open source meeting software.
“The most important part of conferences by far is what happens in the hallways,” he said, “not what happens in the meeting rooms.”
“I think ad-hoc interactions...are among the most important things that people miss in today's work-from-home environment.”
Thomas Malone says: “An online platform like this allows us to create a community to harness the collective intelligence..."
