Science writer Bob Holmes says our daily lives are filled with the accidents of history. The seven-day-work-week, the 24-hour-day, the layout of your computer keyboard -- he says these are all things that no clear-thinking person would ever create today. We're asking what our society would look like if we stripped it down and started from scratch.
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2011/05/04/rebooting-civilization/
