Context is important....................

The context for the above Arthur C. Clarke quote is this Matt Ridley blog post.  Excerpt here:

In 1700 nearly all of us had to dig the soil from dawn to dusk or everybody starved (and some did anyway).  Technology liberated us from that precarious and awful world.   If it does so again, so that our grandchildren never have to think in terms of “jobs” at all, but merely in terms of how they can fill their days fulfilling their wishes and helping others, mixing bits of work with bits of leisure, while drawing on the output of Stakhanovite machines for income, will they envy us our daily commutes and our office politics? I don’t think so.