I don’t know how many people reading this remember what a Wooten desk is. Before the time of Charles Dickens an office desk was a huge round steamer trunk of a project. This desk would unlock in the center and unfold so as to create a work area. Each segment of the Wooten desk contained dozens of stores and cubbyholes. These were essential in a business era revolving around tiny slips of paper. A nicely restored Wooten desk sells for around $20,000 today. Yet that piece of office furniture would hardly serve us well as a modern computer desk.
With 90% of our record keeping and correspondence being done electronically we obviously have little need for drawers, shelves and cubbys. Modern computer centric office desks are quite simpler than their parents and need only a flat surface from which to set a monitor, a slide out keyboard shelf, and perhaps some type of shelf built to hold a computer mini tower.