Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by mattw2121 on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:16PM
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Except, didn't the intro to the Jetsons have George headed to the office every day?
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Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by nedrylandJP on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:50PM
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Yes, and when he got there he put his feet up and closed his eyes.
Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by drekk on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:22PM
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What does it say about our culture that futuristic media envisioned flying cars and robotic servants but not an altered labor arrangement?
Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by trgn on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:34PM
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Modernism. Infatuation with the transformative power of technology. It transfers responsibilities of political participation (what it means to be a citizen) to a mechanistic, consumptive process (what it means to be a consumer). Could not exist without mass manufacturing (without which technology cannot fulfill its telos) or mass media (without which humans would not submit to this ideology).
Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:36PM
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It was a kid’s show. I doubt it was meant to be a cutting commentary on social structures.
Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by j4yav on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:53PM
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And, while we are at it, what's up with the Flintstones and dinosaurs and humans living side by side. If that isn't commentary on the sorry state of academic culture I don't know what else is.
Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by joquarky on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:52PM
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Flintstones is based in the future, not the past ;-)
Also, do cassowaries count as dinosaurs?
Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by MattPalmer1086 on Friday September 22, 2023 @02:26PM
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I'm not sure it says anything about our culture specifically. It speaks to all cultures.
The future is always going to be what we have now, but sexier in some way. So replace cars with flying ones, and replace work we do with robotic servants.
The really interesting science fiction doesn't do a linear extrapolation, it looks at how we might really change. But that's not what we get from a kid's cartoon.
Re:Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s...
by fknorangesite on Friday September 22, 2023 @01:53PM
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Yes, that's what they're saying: that the Jetsons completely missed this prediction.