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How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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The Future of Work Life Balance

In a 1967 news report, Walter Cronkite predicts what the home office of the 21st century may look like. The equipment here will allow him to carry on normal business activities without ever going to an office away from home. With equipment like this in the home of the future, we may not have to go to work. That's amazing. What did you make of that? It reminds meA lot of this ad that I came across. There's a graph on his computer screen of productivity going up,. He has a sandwich and a little thing of milk, which I saw was funny. But now, having lived in the future he predicted, it sounds almost ominous.

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