People need to work less than 1 percent of the time they do to fulfill their basic needs — housing, security and opportunities for their children — Google cofounder Larry Page suggested recently, reviving a Utopian vision that has long been a staple of sci-fi as well as technologists’ vision of the future. “The idea that everyone needs to work frantically to meet people’s needs is just not true,” Page said. “That’s why we’re busy destroying the environment and other things maybe we don’t need to be doing.”
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Larry Page: Less Work, More Play and All Will Be Well in the Garden
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 9, 2014 12:17 PMPeople need to work less than 1 percent of the time they do to fulfill their basic needs — housing, security and opportunities for their children — Google cofounder Larry Page suggested recently, reviving a Utopian vision that has long been a staple of sci-fi as well as technologists’ vision of the future. “The idea that everyone needs to work frantically to meet people’s needs is just not true,” Page said. “That’s why we’re busy destroying the environment and other things maybe we don’t need to be doing.”