Thomas:
After plowing through 80 E Mails, I don't have the energy to go back and
look for comments, but on reading a book review on ROBOT by Hans Moravic
posted on the Net from Wired, I was struck by this sentence:
Quote:
Moravec argues that the concept of work was unknown before agriculture and
the industrial revolution and that we'll get rid of it permanently within a
few decades, when smart machines free us not only from household chores, but
also from exhausting tasks such as writing computer software or managing
corporations. Contrary to popular fears, we'll celebrate our redundancy
because, as hunter-gatherers, indolence and unemployment are part of our
evolutionary heritage.
Thomas:
It was the last sentence that resonated within me. I have long felt that we
deny ourselves one of our birthrights - indolence and unemployment. I enjoy
immensely - doing little or nothing and I enjoy immensely - the pleasure of
following my impulses. Work and employment destroy those natural human
attributes and make them into leisure activities that can only be indulged
in after worshipping at the alter of employment. Biologically, I think we
are not workers, but livers of life. I for one, welcome a future of leisure
and indolence.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
