ARE you free? This oft-asked question is prone to multiple interpretations. Human rights activists will understand it in the context of larger freedoms; managers in offices will assume it means availability to speak, or to do something; others may have different answers, depending on context and questioner. To most, the colloquial understanding of the question has to do with the most common scarce resource: time.
Despite increasingly long workdays for many, the advent of technology in the workplace as well as the home should translate to a greater amount of free time. Why this is not already happening is a bit of a mystery. Yet, sooner rather than later, use of enabling technologies will save time and create more “free time”. In fact, many worry that as machines take over, humans may have prosperity, but no work; the resulting idleness will have its own ramifications.
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