The Brave New World
Some new books have come out on the impact of new technology on employment and human welfare. It turns out that the picture is darker than what people once thought it might be.
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The disappearance of jobs has not ushered in a new age of leisure, as social theorists predicted uneasily in the 1950s. Would the masses utilize their freedom from labor in productive ways, such as civic participation and the arts, or would they die of boredom in their ranch houses? Somehow, it was usually assumed, they would still manage to eat.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich at The New York Times
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The disappearance of jobs has not ushered in a new age of leisure, as social theorists predicted uneasily in the 1950s. Would the masses utilize their freedom from labor in productive ways, such as civic participation and the arts, or would they die of boredom in their ranch houses? Somehow, it was usually assumed, they would still manage to eat.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich at The New York Times
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