Thursday March 09, 2006

Cubism

Fortune has a fascinating article on the history—and economics—of the office cubicle. The lede:

Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called “monolithic insanity.”

Propst is the father of the cubicle.

[Via Synaptic Junction Daily.]

Posted by jim at 03:43 AM ||