Nevertheless, with all the carnage we're witnessing, no one can imagine we're going to revert back to how we were a few short years ago. Our time expectations have been enormously compressed, and they're not likely to expand out again, even with the freefall of online stock prices. You no longer need a Bloomberg terminal to watch your investments plummet in real time. Now that's progress. Dot com jobs carry a risk factor for which people should be compensated, and by that I don't mean with underwater stock options.
Online jobs make advertising jobs look as stable as banking.
It's not a bad strategy. But it doesn't leave much left for having some semblance of a personal life. Unlike time, personal relationships aren't as easily compressed. It's folly to expect that the online revolution would travel in a straight upward line. It got ahead of itself, or rather people's upside fantasy got ahead of reality.