‘If Work Is Digital, Why Do We Still Go to the Office’: Even though predictions by prominent theorists over the years claimed that “distance will die,” with the advancement of technology allowing us to communicate instantaneously anywhere, MIT researchers Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel illustrate in the Harvard Business Review how the contrary appears to be taking place, as many firms are still investing significantly in renovated office spaces because “even if we can work from anywhere, that does not mean we want to.” Over the years, there has been a transformation from tight cubicle spaces to more open, sociable spaces that promote interaction and the sharing of intellectual and physical tools. They even state that the strive for the ideal workspace has already enlisted the help of data analysts attempting to “quantify” human interactions by building tools that measure human connections and spatial behavior and how they relate to productivity and creativity. “Imagine rooms that automatically go on stand-by and save on energy when left empty,” an initiative the authors claim to be already studying. All this feeds into the notion of thinking of buildings as “T-shirts” rather than a “corset.”