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The Future is Younger Than You Think

By: Elizabeth WeilTue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:43 PM
If you're working to create products for the 21st century, why not work alongside the people who live there already? Eye-opening lessons from Xerox, Autodesk, and Compaq on the power of the inexperience curve.

What follows, then, are eyewitness accounts of how serious companies are conducting seriously radical experiments with young people in the workplace. You don't have to hire your own kiddie corps to learn from these experiments. But you do have to open your eyes -- and your mind. Prepare to feel obsolete. It's the first step towards moving ahead.

Elizabeth Weil (lweil@interaccess.com) writes on youth and culture from Chicago. Her work has appeared in "Rolling Stone," "The New York Times Magazine," "Mademoiselle," and other publications.

Autodesk : "Who's Teaching Whom?"

Xerox Parc: "Brainstorming the Future"

Compaq: "Cruise (Out of) Control"

Digital: "Little Hands Teach Big Hands"

Xerox: "Workscapes of the Future"

From Issue 08 | April 1997

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