Mainstream media USA turns radical by retrofitting an (industrial)age-old dream implict in modernity and made explicit by the counter-culture.

The LA Times carried an item of commentary the other day in which "robots promise you an endless vacation" (registration req.):

"To achieve true economic freedom, we must break a fundamental doctrine in today's economy: the link between work and income. Robots will be doing all the work, so this link becomes meaningless. We need a new paradigm."

I've been wanting to comment on this extensively - on financial dictatorship, on lack of historical perspective in tech dreaming, on the meaning of labour and other tasty morsels of sashimi for the mind - but have been too busy working non-stop. Perhaps one day a robot can blog for me...