ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Edward Anderson's work place, 'Universal Computers' (UC), which turned out to offer a variety of teleworking arrangements. It explores uses of information technology and the issue of cultural change. The chapter elaborates how work may be conceived as a 'tradition of knowledge'. It suggests that it is the criteria of validity for what counts as academic work that are becoming reshaped, to the effect of also in some measure reshaping the criteria of validity for academic knowledge. The chapter explores how employees were very dependent on each other, in terms of action. Rather, Edward's extensive reflection on how information technology and practices of telework related to various aspects of the social dynamics at his work place may be seen as testimony to his participation in a process of incremental cultural change.
