IT Task Force: Our work is done

Mid-Century Report: February 21, 2051

With the entire human race now cybernetically modified to be able to communicate directly with all kinds of machines, the IT Task Force at Century College has declared its work complete.

“It has been a productive forty years,” the Task Force chair said in a statement today. “During that time, we have overseen nearly 50,000 IT work tickets, with nearly 8% of them complete. That is certain success, by some definitions.”

The IT department was equally melancholy about ending the long collaboration.

“Nothing can be more useful to getting work done than a task force,” the head of IT said. “We don’t know how we would have gotten on without it.”

Immediately after disbanding the group, the college announced the formation of a cybernetics task force to deal with concerns over slow responses to work tickets in the cybernetics department.

New integrated communication system goes live

Mid-Century Report: February 15, 2051

The Century College IT department today announced that its new “fully integrated” communication system is now fully operational, with brainmail, telepathy, virtual reality feeds, and old-fashioned Internet access all joined into one system.

“Now you don’t have to interrupt your VR experience to check your brainmail,” the proud head of IT announced. “You can access your telepathy via your brainmail, or check brainmail on the Internet, for those who still remember how to use it.”

The system produced very positive response from the three employees who were able to use it during the seventy-four seconds before it crashed.

“I liked being able to see all my messages in one place,” one staff member said. “And now that it’s down, no one has any way to reach me!”

IT offered assurances that these “minor bugs” would soon be fixed, and urged those who still had problems after today to attempt to find some kind of paper and send them a note about it.