In the workplace—or even retail or healthcare setting—autonomy and resilience require a supportive environment, potentially achievable through an infrastructure evolution driven by emerging building technologies and construction methods. Imagine wireless internet and charging capabilities for all your devices without any connection to wall or floor outlets. Imagine furniture performing all the functions of an electric connection— table tops as conductors, table legs as receivers for power transmitted through the floor. Mobile tables could be almost anywhere, providing power on an as-needed basis.
How likely is this scenario? With LAN and WAN connections, it is currently conceivable. A workforce could be fully autonomous with this kind of infrastructure, able to move through a work environment completely untethered, restricted only by architecture. Although workflows typically require some degree of enclosed space, that could be addressed by the initial space construction or retrofit.