One of the great ironies in all of these marvelous inventions (with the possible exception of the gruesome weapons of destruction) is that they all promised to make life easier and more manageable and therefore give us more time. Indeed, when I was a young man, pundits and futurists were speaking of the glorious future anticipated from such time-saving inventions, and a topic that was much discussed was what we would do with all free time that would now be at our disposal. With cheap energy available from nuclear sources and these fantastic machines doing all our manual and mental labor, the
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