Technology has helped us live more efficiently, work faster and smarter. And instead of eliminating jobs as Luddites feared, it paved way for the greatest economic expansion on record. Unfortunately, what technology gives it also can take away. The promise of more leisure time remains unfulfilled. I'm keeping in contact.
Technology makes a lot of stuff easy, but it creates a lot more stuff to do in an easy way.
Mr. Thompson is also president of the International Popular Culture Association at Syracuse University in New York. George Sparks, Agilent's vice president of wireless solutions, agrees. A decade ago, he says, few people surfed the Net, used mobile phones or downloaded television programs to a hard drive. In 1990, most consumers gathered information by flipping through printed pages. If the assumption was that technology was going to give us more leisure time, in reality what it has done is make us more productive.