I tend to think of this as a good point. Technology shouldn't make us busier, but quite the opposite. Strange that modern life makes people busier than before instead of the opposite: http://gre5dot5.wordpress.com/2012/07/1 ... sure-time/

gary wrote:I tend to think of this as a good point. Technology shouldn't make us busier, but quite the opposite. Strange that modern life makes people busier than before instead of the opposite: http://gre5dot5.wordpress.com/2012/07/1 ... sure-time/

Yes, I do truly miss the 1950s, where there were almost 50% of todays holidays and only 12 extra hours added to the working week. Or even the 1900s, when working hours in a week were twice as long.

Truly, I think as I type on this computer, technology has ruined our lives.

Yes, but aren't we once again becoming busier and busier than maybe 2 or 3 decades ago? We used to be very busy in the industrial revolution, then worked less and less progressing far into the 1900s, and now more and more again?

BTW, links:

http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu32 ... alatea.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0ys22.jpg

I wonder how long before Freespace Open looks that good ingame. It is already starting to approach a detail level like this to a certain degree. To have that detail would be awe-inspiring and literally breath-taking.

gary wrote:Yes, but aren't we once again becoming busier and busier than maybe 2 or 3 decades ago? We used to be very busy in the industrial revolution, then worked less and less progressing far into the 1900s, and now more and more again?

Not really. You might be reachable by work at 11pm on email, it doesn't necessarily entail that you are obligated to actually work at 11pm. I had a contract with Cisco that mandated unpaid overtime as necessary, but I only ever stayed past 5pm or so once (and that particular project ended with the team getting a performance bonus).

You can now even work at home entirely (saving hours of commuting), and the same communications technology that lets you receive (and ignore) an 11pm work request lets you attend and present at a conference by teleconf rather than fly out and stay in a hotel for three days. We didn't have these things as common concepts even a decade ago, not to mention the gradual strengthening of employee rights in most places (the US has seen a noted reduction in average work weeks, even without things like the EU's Working Time directives). Technology has reduced working hours - the problem is that people view technology as a magic wand and forget that it's a) incremental in effect and b) it always takes time for processes to fully take advantage, even when trying to do so.

President got bear hugged? http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/flor ... ction.html You have to wonder how the body guards allowed that. Wait, it looks like a fake stiff replica (mannequin).