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Originally Posted by rcooled
You're absolutely right...the genie's out of the bottle and isn't going back. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy technology as much as the next guy. I have iPods, iPads, laptops, gps and cell phones too. I just find it interesting how quickly mobile devices have risen to the status of "necessity". We're witnessing the birth of a phenomenon here that will eventually have a profound effect on most everything people in the civilized world do. Probably something along the lines of what Henry's Model T did for the status quo back in the early 1900s, only reaching so many more people.
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Very true. Most regular jobs used to about doing something repetitive for some number of hours a day, then you are done and go home. Nowadays many of those types of 9-5 labor jobs get shipped overseas to someone who will do it cheaper. More jobs here these days are about accomplishing some goal and getting a result. No one cares if you worked 10 hours or 80 hours last week as long as the goal was done by Monday. No one cares if you sat in a cubicle or sat in your living room as long as it got done.
This is good and bad I guess. I love the freedom to manage my time and location as I see fit, but I also realize that the line between work and not-work is totally blurred in my life.