In response to Tom Lunde, Arthur Cordell,
Michael Gurstein, Eva Durant, Neva Goodwin and Sherry Martin
Thanks to all of you for your
comments.
I think we do need positive and optimistic
visions as Arthur Cordell and Sherry Martin were posting.
We also need the pessimistic "black"
vision
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To: Thomas Lunde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 24, 1998 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: working hours-visions
>Thomas Lunde wrote:
>>
>> Robert wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to ask you all for your visions for the development of the
>> regular amoun
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Hi Sherry et al,
[snip[
>In five years I still see the expanding of "normal" work hours, not formally
>but just happening. I think the average employee feels threatened and driven
>to achieve or be replaced. I see people working 60 + hours per week. I
>remember when the business world
> I'd like to ask you all for your visions for the developement of the
> regular amount of working hours in the next 5, 10, 20 years!
>
If that includes me - it seems that regularity is already
largely out of the window.
Also, the question is, what considered "working".
Just because something
Arthur Cordell wrote,
>Ok, Ok, attached is a paper from a just over two years ago which also
>attempts, in a serious/whimsical way to get at the answer.
It's appropriate, when asked for our visions of the future, to rummage in
the archives and recall past predictions that may or may not have ha
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From: Robert Neunteufel
To: Futurework
Subject: working hours-visions
Date: Saturday, November 21, 1998 8:29PM
In addition to the postings on the views on Rifkin's theory
(thanks for all the interesting informations)
I'd like to ask you all for your visions for the devel
In addition to the postings on the views on Rifkin's theory
(thanks for all the interesting informations)
I'd like to ask you all for your visions for the developement of the
regular amount of working hours in the next 5, 10, 20 years!
I give you some visions from the past:
Aistotle, 350 B.C.
Robert wrote:
I'd like to ask you all for your visions for the development of the
regular amount of working hours in the next 5, 10, 20 years!
Thomas:
It will depend on subsistence. If we become owners of intelligent robots,
we may evolve into a non working environment, the best of the techie
