This Article is From Oct 01, 2015

#ThrowbackThursday: Remember When Your Computer Table Looked Like This?

#ThrowbackThursday: Remember When Your Computer Table Looked Like This?
Technology has made life simpler and more comfortable. We can now do most things with the click of a single button. The computer changed to a more convenient laptop, which changed to an easy-to-use tablet, then phablet, and now we use the various apps on our phones to do even day-to-day chores.

The desk in the video below is emblematic of how the evolution of technology has changed our lives - as the business of living moved from the real to the virtual world, our work table surface was shorn of its many devices. 

Made by the Harvard Innovation Lab, this will help you see how the increase of different apps has helped unclutter your surroundings. 

"The evolution of the desk" simply shows the "steep shift from cork boards and fax machines to Pinterest and PDFs" with a short video. 

At the advent of the early computers, this is how a typical workspace looked:
 

By 2014, the desk changed to look like this:
 

Watch the video to see the impressive way technology changed not just your life, but your surroundings as well. 

the evolution of the desk by the harvard innovation lab from designboom on Vimeo. First posted on BestReviews.

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