From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 11:22:56 MST
> (Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
>
> But what the heck is "work" when increasingly large groups of people
> have no skills that are not subsumed by or made irrelevant by
> accelerating technology? There is no need in advanced countries
> for everyone to be in full-time work of any conventional kind.
Can you imagine a world in which everything knowable is known, and
there's no longer anyone striving for more knowledge of any kind?
I certainly can't. The "skills" that all humans have in abundance
include curiosity, imagination, judgment. In a high-tech world
where mundane things like food and shelter and transportation and
communication are cheap as air, there will still be a need for
exploration, education, entertainment. The economy will be driven
by those who produce information, those who look for and select
information. The amount of "work" required to support a human
may be as little as offering an opinion now and then; but it is
not likely to ever be zero, and those who do more of it will have
more opportunities than those who don't.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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