While I cam see this is an important topic deserving of deep academic debate and investigation - I am just curious as to how this relates to the "purpose" of this futurework list?
I am just one of the technical drones that monitor the status of the list and the hardware it resides on - and every once in a while I browse the posts. from the listinfo page: "FUTUREWORK: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION FUTUREWORK is an international e-mail forum for discussion of how to deal with the new realities created by economic globalization and technological change. Basic changes are occurring in the nature of work in all industrialized countries. Information technology has hastened the advent of the global economic village. Jobs that workers at all skill levels in developed countries once held are now filled by smart machines and/or in low-wage countries. Contemporary rhetoric proclaims the need for ever-escalating competition, leaner and meaner ways of doing business, a totally *flexible* workforce, jobless growth. What would a large permanent reduction in the number of secure, adequately-waged jobs mean for communities, families and individuals? This is not being adequately discussed, nor are the implications for income distribution and education. Even less adequately addressed are questions of how to take back control of these events, how to turn technological change into the opportunity for a richer life rather than the recipe for a bladerunner society. Our objective in creating this list is to involve as many people as possible in re-designing for the new realities. We hope that this list will help to move these issues to a prominent place on public and political agendas worldwide. The FUTUREWORK list is hosted by the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo. "
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