Architecture yokes us ever closer

I love this. Wired has a visual history of office organization, ending with a design for the 'networked' workplace. "Since the dawn of the white-collar age, office designs have cycled through competing demands: openness versus privacy, interaction versus autonomy." The burgeoning, networked, collaborative, collective intelligence flavor of the contemporary workplace features four-person pods, the edges defined by curved walls.

I dunno. Some people work better alone. Where will those people sit in this new arrangement? Or is collective intelligence the newest repressive regime? I say this as a person who shares her office with a p/t person, and I sit closest to the window. And it's glorious.