Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:15PM
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> I haven't seen any data, but my guess is that the average person's commute is roughly the same as it was 150 years ago.
I think you'd probably be wrong (though it may depend strongly on which average you take); even with the industrial revolution, working at home, or essentially so (whether yeoman farming or living upstairs from the shop) was a lot more common 150 years ago than it is now, though it may be more common now than it was just before telecommuting.
I think you'd probably be wrong (though it may depend strongly on which average you take); even with the industrial revolution, working at home, or essentially so (whether yeoman farming or living upstairs from the shop) was a lot more common 150 years ago than it is now, though it may be more common now than it was just before telecommuting.