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From: globalcp@cue.UVic.CA (Melcir Erskine-Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: The Leisure Society
Message-ID: <1034@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 24 Jul 90 04:29:11 GMT
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KC Burgess Yakemovic suggests that computerization of the workplace
may have increased the workload.

Personally, I wonder if the computerization of society is not just more
fun, and therefore we willingly take on a somewhat expanded concept of
what is or is not work (not work-without-pay necessarily, but work-with-
heart work-as-pleasure if not even work-as-leisure!).  

I for one write an enormous volume of mail by computer, far surpassing
anything I would have dreamed personally possible using typed letter+stamp
+postal service.  Excitingly, the process of communications between myself

and those with whom I correspond is also rapidly escalating, with the speed
of turn-around time between communications by email being so quick!  Is this
just work or work-as-excitement or work-as-fun!  No wonder we are working 
more, if we are enjoying our work more!

Melcir