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IN THIS ISSUE
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Agenda
Time to re-think office lighting rules
11
Comment
Don’t put your trust in a bubble, warns
Geraldine Osman
12
Cover Story
How to save money with MPLS
15
Opinion
How to avoid the pitfalls of modern technology
16
Computing
Quick payback for school data centre
28
Business Continuity
Could you survive business interruption?
31
Broadband
How to improve speeds for your home office
32
Sustainability
Natural ventilation wins plaudits in Bradford
34
Internet of Things
The technology keeping Britain moving
38
Workplace
Why sit-stand is an investment worth making. Plus, how to combat
‘presence disparity’ and can lighting prevent diabetes?
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The 175th anniversary of the Penny Black last month
highlighted the potential of innovation to work to the
common good. Through standardisation of format and
pricing, the first adhesive postage stamp replaced the
inconsistencies of the prevailing postal system with a clear,
uniform and low-cost means of communication that led to a
massive increase in activity and enterprise. About 150 years
later, email was to have a similar effect in the digital age.
It is testament to the rapid pace of progress today that email is
already falling out of favour. As we report on page 10, email is
increasingly seen as a costly drain on productivity. Part of the
problem (also a benefit) is that email is free (or seen as free) for
the sender, with costs borne by the recipient in the form of time
spent processing messages.
A big part of the Penny Black’s success was that it replaced
payment on delivery with pre-payment by the sender. In that
respect at least email has turned the clock back more than 175
years. As we celebrate the achievement of Rowland Hill, perhaps
we should consider whether a system of pre-payment for email
(if only nominally) would make people think more carefully about
how and when they used it.
James Goulding, Editor
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