Hi there. I'm off this week.

Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday.

So I'm counting this Caribbean rum distillery tour as professional development.

Yours calling.

Take your holiday as seriously

as British Airways holidays take your holiday.

Atoll protected. The Economist Now this is where a man might spend most of his time in the home of the 21st century.

In the late 1960s, America's favorite news anchor, Walter Cronkite, presented a series of programs imagining the future.

This equipment here will allow him to carry on normal business activities without ever going to an office away from home.

In one episode, Cronkite leads the viewer on a tour of a home office.

The room is a studiously neutral space, with high ceilings, a grey carpet, and empty bookshelves.

The Star attraction is a big, modernist desk, on top of which sits a bank of computer monitors and control boxes.

There's a sleek sleek black information terminal.

This console provides a summary of news relayed by satellite from all over the world.

Another screen for checking on the weather and the stock market and a device for video calling.

Now if I want to see the people I'm talking with, I just turn the button and there they are.

The CBS Anchorman didn't get everything about the future right.

His working from home attire is a suit and tie.

There's an awful lot of bril cream.

As I work on this screen, I can keep in touch with other rooms of the house through a closed-circuit television system.

The image shows a woman and child changing bedsheets.

It's apparently easier to imagine Zoom than a world in which women go to work.

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