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work week
We have the technology to work less and live better, but we don’t want to
In 1930, a year into the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write about the economic possibilities of his grandchildren. Despite widespread gloom, as the global economic order fell to its knees, the British economist remained upbeat, saying that the “prevailing world depression…blind[s] us to what is going on under the surface”. In …
JENKINS: When it comes to technology, I’m with Mr. Poe | News
Edgar Allan Poe, the original American Luddite, once described science as “a vulture, whose wings are dull realities.” It had, he insisted, “dragged Diana from her car … driven the Hamadryad from the wood … torn the Elfin from his green grass,” and stolen from him “the summer dream beneath the tamarind tree.” In other …
