Re: The next 15 years (20 years ago)

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From: KC Burgess Yakemovic
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 20:34

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Fridrik Skulason quotes James Martin and Adrian Norman as predicting:

> ... as leisure times increases as a result of automation ...

As I was reading your posting it struck me that this may have been the
_biggest_ miss among the predictions. (Not that Martin and Norman were
alone in this...:-)  Recently I've heard/read a number of things that
suggest that the computerization of our workplaces may have simply *added*
to the workload, rather than reduced it.

Therefore I'm curious... are people _still_ predicting that leisure is 
just around the corner?  If so, what do we now think it is that will make 
more time available?

K.C. Burgess Yakemovic

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