🚀 go-pugleaf

sean@think.com (Sean Colbath) writes:
>given the choice, I would not
>travel *AT ALL* to get to work.  I would stay in the comfort of my own
>home, logged in remotely, listening to my stereo, eating meals out of my
>kitchen, and causing no pollution or road congestion.  Unfortunately, in
>today's society that is not yet an option.

Indeed, I hope this never becomes the prevalent option.  Technology, used
improperly, often leads to isolation and a resulting lower quality of
life.  Isolated, we have little reason to cooperate with one another on
a variety of issues, and this is IMHO one of the reasons for the declining
participation in politics and the gridlock in boardrooms and governments
everywhere.

So if "having a life" means toting a beeper, calling in for voice-mail
messages every so often, dialing into a computer, and watching pay-per-
view, I'd rather not have one.  I'd rather go to a workplace with real
live people, go to a cinema and feel the stickiness under my feet, and
answer my own phone.

But of course, some of my time does get used for USENET, the Village Green
of technology.

-rich