Our Dreams Take Us Into Other Worlds,

These Days We Seem More Bound To Our Bosses Than Ever Before. We Even Identify Our Own Selves With The Jobs We Do: "what Do You Do?" Is The First Question We Ask Each Other At Parties, As If A Job Title Could Express A Fundamental Truth About Our Personality.

I Originally Welcomed The Mobile Phone As It Seemed To Me That It Would Enable You To Work From Anywhere. On The Mobile, Who Was To Know If You Were Sitting On The Branch Of A Tree Or Sitting In An Office? But It Instead Had The Opposite Effect: Instead Of Freeing Us From The Office, It Allowed The Office To Take Away Our Freedom.

We Have An Idea That If Something We're Doing Isn't Actually Earning Money, Or Spending It, Then It's Completely Worthless. But If You Start To Work Less, You Can Actually Start To Give More To Society, But On A Local Level.

To Me There Is No More Depressing Sight Than A Five-year-old Staring At A Screen, Unsmiling, Mouse In Hand. Besides Whatever Dreadful Things This Prolonged Exposure To Screens Is Doing To Their Brains, Computer Games Tend To Be Solitary Affairs, And Produce Little Laughter.

We Have To Wonder Whether Digital Technology, Rather Than Making It Easier To Communicate, Is Actually Doing The Opposite. We Now Sit Alone At A Keyboard, Firing Off Zeros And Ones Into The Ether. Offices Are Silent.