Today Reporter Candace Lombardi of ZDNet News discussed Microsoft's updated "Office of the Future" and said that "Future software will automatically search and harness metadata--identifying information tagged to items like appointments or Word documents--to automatically identify, organize and orchestrate common-sense relationships. These "pattern recognitions" are then automatically acted on to anticipate the needs of the "information worker".

"Information worker" is the term CIW uses to describe individuals who use computers to access or distribute information as part of their job."

Hmmmm - I wonder if we consider our selves "Information workers"? :-)

You can view some pretty exciting photos of Microsoft's updated "Office of the Future" here. Much of the future described will begin in 2007!