The home office
Technology renders daily commute obsolete
Sometime just after the turn of the
century, you get up for work late, but
lazily make the trek to work — down
your hallway, to the den, where your
personal computer, fax and telephone
await. With a sigh, you sit down and
begin slaving away in the privacy of
your own home.
Sounds too good to be true? A
dream job? Science fiction, perhaps?
For some 39 million Americans liv
ing in 1993, it’s a reality, according to
Paul and Sarah Edwards’ study in
“The Best Home-Based Businesses
for the ’90s.”
John Naisbill, in his 1982 best
seller “Megatrends,*’ predicted the
growth of home businesses, but un
derestimated what has become its
phenomemal growth. The Edwards
study foresees just over 50 million
home-business workers by 1997.
Phillip Burgess, of the Denver
based Center for the New West, coined
the term “Lone Eagles” for those
home-office workers who rely almost
exclusively on modem technology for
their commutes to work.
Some9 million workers in the U.S.
today arc tied to work by fax ma
chines, personal computers with mo
dems and cellular phones. More than
a few of them arc settling in smaller
towns, scenic areas and the Western
United States in general.
The powers driving this trend are
rooted in the changing nature of the
American economy. Corporations,
according to Burgess, arc downsizing
by laying off talented, middle-aged
middle-management personnel, who
then search for new careers.
Second, urban centers arc in an
advanced slate 6f decay, filled with
intolerably long and frustrating com
mutes by automobile and rising crime
rates.
In the 21st century,
connections to
regional, national or
global
telecommunications
systems will
determine a town’s
fate. Physical and
geographical space
will become largely
irrelevant.
No longer seeing the city as a
desirable environment in which to
raise children, workers are deserting
urban chaos for small towns in the
West.
Modem technology makes this lat
ter-day cottage industry boom fea
sible. Future workers may zoom along
information highways being planned
by government and private interests,
rather than crawl along concrete high
ways choked with smog.
The implications for society and
the economy arc potentially far-reach
ing. Until now, communities in the
West depended on proximity to trans
portation routes for economic sur
vival.
Omaha began as a river town; the
arrival of a railroad in the 1870s or
1880s could define a town’s destiny.
In the 20th century, the interstate
highway system played a comparable
role.
In the 21 si century, connections to
regional, national or global telecom
munications systems will determine a
town’s fate. Physical and geographi
cal space will become largely irrel
evant.
The trend toward a temporary work
force, already noticeable today, may
accelerate. With access to home in
formation linkups, a good part of
the professional work force may be
come independent contractors,
freelancing at will. The corporation,
already a legal fiction, may become
even more of a state of mind.
It may even be a solution to the
day-care crisis. When mom no longer
has to go to the office 10 hours a day
and can complete her work at the
keyboard with a baby on her lap,
taking breaks as need be, day care
becomes less a pressing need. The list
goes on and on.
Ask anyone who’s slaved away in
a shag-carpeted sweatshop if they’d
rather be working out of their cozy
homes — and watch them leave the
office in droves.
Sam Kcpfldd is a graduate student in
history — who still has to commute by bus to
write these words for the Daily Nebraskan.
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What’s Up:
Plays, music, laser shows
Ah to be in the Big City, now
that Spring is here: If nothing here
appeals, you can always get a tan
while you study for your mind
crushing finals.
Friday—“Enchanted April” is
still showing at the Carson.
Thcatrix offers two plays: “The
Sum Of Us” In the Temple Build
ing, studio .301, tonight and tomor
row at 9 p.m.; and “Imprints” to
night and tomorrow at 7 p.m., and
May 2 at 2 p.m. in the Studio
Theatre.
The 15th Annual Mayor’s Arts
A wards in the Lied, 6:30 p.m., $ 12.
A play, “Same Old Moon,” pre
mieres at Nebraska Wesleyan’s
McDonald Theater, $4.
Dr. Bcrtice Berry laughs it up at
Kimball Hall with two shows: 7
and 9 p.m. Tickets arc $ 15 and S10.
And the Rape/Spouse Abuse
Crisis Center holds its second an
nual benefit Art Auction at Gold’s
Galleria from 6 p.m. Open to the
public.
Saturday — The Ravnan Two
perform FREE cello and piano du
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ser-Show-O’-thc-Wcck features
country music, yee-haw, at Mueller
Planetarium 3:30 p.m.
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presents “A Midsummer Night’s
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The Lincoln Symphony Orches
tra presents James Wcslwatcr’s
Photochorcography: hundreds of
color photographs of the American
west play across three screens to
the music of Aaron Copland in the
Lied Center, 8 p.m. ticket prices
vary.
— Mark Baldridge
Fusion band to perform
variety of music styles
By Sarah Duey
Staff Reporter
Things will happen tonight at
Smitty’s Garage that have never hap
pened before.
A fusion band will perform for the
first time as a collective group from
8:30 to midnight at 808 P Sl for no
cover.
Kelly Rossum, trumpeter for
RAMPARK.said the group members
had played together in other groups as
well as sal at the poker table together.
But the five members have never
plaved together as RAMPARK.
“As an acoustic player, I wanted to
work with electric instruments,”
Rossum said. “That’s why I put to
gether this instrumentation.”
Scott Zimmerman, senior music
education major, will play percus
sion. Rob Glover, biochemistry ma
jor, will play electric bass. Tom Harvil,
former UNL student and currently a
computer programmer, will play key
boards. Jim Dodson, senior computer
science and engineering major, will
play electric guitar. Rossum is a se
nior trumpet major.
Rossum said the last fusion band in
the area played about five years ago.
Dodson said RAMPARK played
everything from original rock com
positions to jazz standards.
Although fusion i$ a mixture of
jazz and rock, R AMPARK’s music is
mostly rock. Rossum said the group
was influenced by Miles Davis, Sling
and Primus.
“We’ll be playing some funk,
reggae and even some ‘Sesame Street’
tunes in a jazz-rock idiom,” Rossum
said. Much of the music will be played
in mixed meters and will be alter
ations of original fusion pieces.
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