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Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, that makes two of us. | Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, that makes two of us. | ||
For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], the last thirty-odd years have been one long | For one thing, from our [[perspective chauvinism|vantage point]], the last thirty-odd years have been one long [[Cambrian explosion]] of technology (''t’internet! iPhones! SETI@home! Uber! Drones!''), but so far ''not a sign of any extra leisure time''. Maybe it is just me, readers, but for [[JC|this old goat]] it has been quite the ''opposite'' experience. | ||
''There is more work now than ever.'' | ''There is more work to do now than ''ever''.'' | ||
Granted, a lot of it is ''crap'' work: [[internal audit]], software [[change manager|change management]] and operations analytics might not be the effervescent future we envisaged as wild undergraduate dreamers — but had anyone known, would they have told us? [[Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?]] Knowing our actual future might have crushed the very will to power within each of us, like a painted flower. | Granted, a lot of it is ''crap'' work: [[internal audit]], software [[change manager|change management]] and operations analytics might not be the effervescent future we envisaged as wild undergraduate dreamers — but had anyone known, would they have told us? [[Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?]] Knowing our actual future might have crushed the very will to power within each of us, like a painted flower. | ||