Does it feel like you never leave the office, even when you're home? Do you ever scroll through e-mails on your Blackberry while having a conversation with your child? Acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley looks at how technology has erased the boundary between public and private space, work an leisure in his book Elsewhere, U.S.A..
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Comments [5]
We are all sharecroppers fazed by the technology around us. But sharecroppers that owe their soul to the "company store" none the less.
I'm sorry but this guy is an idiot. Street crime isn't going to go up because of the tanking economy because "it's harder to mug people" because they don't carry cash anymore? And that the type of person who mugs people is instead going to become an expert on hacking people's credit card accounts? Please, give me a break. I hate to be so coarse, but this guy is a clueless moron.
America is not a meritocracy, and we here this fact more and more. But, what can we do about it?
It's torture to understand the way the world works but not being able to do anything about it.
Dave
I was wondering if Mr. Conley was influenced at all by the work of the social psychologist Erich Fromm and if he could comment on that.
Does it blur the boundary between public and private / work and leisure or is it just part of the increased pressure for our lives to be consumed more and more by work? I can’t pick and choose the hours and days I want to work, yet I am still obliged to check email and do work on my personal time. It is not a fair balance between work/leisure for most people.
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