Like zombies, there are technologies in a modern city that stagger on, slowly, relentlessly consuming the minds and productivity of the living; they must die! They were once living, cutting-edge innovations, which brought new productivity to our city staff and new services to our citizens. Desktop technologies allowed new levels of communications and collaboration, freeing us from the old mainframe infrastructure accessible only to a few. But now they trap us behind a desk or in an office and limit communications and collaboration by slowing us down with infrastructure having little to do with the core mission of a city. It is less about the hardware, software or even the ones and zeros, than about freeing our people from drudgery of routine work—work that can now be accomplished by new technologies, allowing employees the freedom to do what they do best: engaging others and being creative. We propose that there these “zombie technologies” exist on the desktop, in communications/collaboration technologies and in infrastructure technologies.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/03/09-zombie-technologies-in-the-workplace-ott-elkins-cook
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