NINE years after the first video display terminal – IBM 260 – was presented to the world, (a text-only monochrome cathode ray tube display station with a keyboard) a 1975 Business Week article predicted a paperless office. The Schengen Agreement intended to gradually abolish border checks at the signatories’ common borders and harmonizing their visa policies. At a glance, the Schengen Agreement presented a microcosm of a borderless world since a visa issued to one Schengen country allows a visa holder to travel to the other states within the Schengen area. With a Schengen visa, the borders within the 26 country signatories virtually vanish. Borders are being drawn and rebuilt in sharp contrast to the previous intent to have a borderless world.

Source: Manila Times March 18, 2018 16:31 UTC