Forget the idea you had of office life until recently, and that had been conveyed also through some famous movies, like “Desk Set” featuring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Forget the employees being busy with typewriters, huge archives and files that cannot be found, now there are advanced storage devices, like the IBM System Storage Manager, and forget also those huge computers, that in older movies took up a whole wall, while in more recent movies were content with towering on the desk. Thanks to tools like the IBM Blade Center the physical space that is taken by computer tools has reduced a lot, and this is an evidence of how the big developments and progresses that have been made in the field of computer science have entered by force even the quiet world of offices, causing changes and, in most cases, significant improvements in carrying out the work, quickening and automating some operations that in the past took much time, leaving less time to more important operations.
To have an idea of how the sector of computer science, with all its consequences, have entered our offices, changing even the simplest actions, think about the introduction of the software instruments that let users create text documents, like the office automation software. Nowadays if you want to write a letter, a text, or any other file, you cannot but uses those instruments, and if your pc stops working, it seems impossible to be able to use “ancient” instruments, like typewriters, or “prehistoric” tools, like pen and paper, to make the same things. The idea we have of writing is not connected to the pen anymore, but to the keyboard, although this is certainly a much less poetic image.
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If we were to make a list of all the computer and software tools that have changed our life in the office, we could write a whole encyclopedia, devoting long pages to all those companies that have been proposing products and services, helping the development of computer science, like IBM, International Business Machines Corporation. Founded in the beginning of the 20th century, IBM is one of the most famous and ancient IT companies in the world, and throughout its history has launched products like the IBM Rack Server and IBM Power Systems. It is also thanks to these companies, which have worked for a long time trying to understand the needs of the people and to improve their own services, that office work has undergone, especially in recent times, a significant development.
However, working with a computer can also have negative consequences. While the worst thing that might occur working with the typewriter was running out of ink and paper, using a pc there is the virus threat hanging over us, a virus that might invalidate and undermine our work. But also in this case it is technology that helps us, and you only need to buy an antivirus device that helps you to keep away from such threats.
