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Kill Your Cubicle: The Future of Work

1. What was the Breakout! festival?
2. How did you convince leaders from very different fields who normally don't work together (architecture, urban planning, software development, hardware engineering, design, academia, government, etc.) to join forces and build out this nonprofit project?
3. Why did the typical late-20th-Century office environment come into being in the first place?
4. How did people naturally work in cities before the cubicle age, and why do experts believe that, in many ways, typical urban work settings are headed back in that direction?
5. How specifically do wi-fi, social media and coworking fit into the picture?
6. If this type of work setting has been around for fewer than 50 years, why does it feel like the "natural" way of doing business?
7. Why is the typical late-20th-Century office environment destined for extinction?
8. Why and how can you get involved in shaping these changes and improving working life in your city?
9. What were the most important lessons and the biggest surprises that emerged from the Breakout! festival and similar projects?
10. What are the biggest challenges and unanswered questions that remain in this realm?