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flashback
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average work day: 4 hours
An interesting look at life in the year 2008 circa 1968. My favorite part:
The average work day is about four hours. But the extra time isn’t totally free. The pace of technological advance is such that a certain amount of a jobholder’s spare time is used in keeping up with the new developments—on the average, about two hours of home study a day
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The Internet Is A Fad
Thanks to Digg the most popular article on Newsweek.com is currently an opinion piece circa 1995 on this thing called “the internet.” See Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway:
“We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month?
