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- stutimandal, on 11/19/2008, -1/+849. A Four Hour Work Day
This has surely been the biggest mistake. - ModernTenshi, on 11/19/2008, -0/+61Did anyone read the 1968 predictions like narrators in old science and information films, with over emphasized voices and everything?
- dienaked, on 11/19/2008, -1/+50Actually, there is really only a four hour work day.
Unfortunately they make you spend a full 8 hours at the place of employment.
Telling people they could go home and receive full-pay when all their work is done and done correctly would prove my point.
Of course people working for almost any local, state or national government would never be able to leave. - sjbdallas, on 11/19/2008, -2/+50He failed to mention porn in his home computer prediction.
- doctordbx, on 11/19/2008, -2/+38I am still mega pissed we don't have flying cars.
We were promised FLYING CARS!!!!! - kristoaster, on 11/19/2008, -1/+35Dugg for the user comment:
"The four our work day is spot on. I work four hours a day and surf the web for the remaining three and a half." - Scrappy1850, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2640 years later and we STILL dont have monkeys fighting over monoliths, damnit.
- jdames1980, on 11/19/2008, -0/+21I so agree. I wish we could get over all this ***** of traditional business hours where people parade around all day pretending to be busy.
- kelliillek, on 11/19/2008, -0/+19I did! I also kept relaying in my head Conan's "In the year two-thoooouuusaaannd. . ."
- RealmDown, on 11/19/2008, -0/+18WWE
- EarlOfLade, on 11/19/2008, -0/+17Reminds me of someone my ex-wife worked with. They called him "The Sheet" as he always carried some sheets of paper with something printed on them, just to look busy. Nobody ever knew what he did, but whatever it was, he had done it for a long time.
- EarlOfLade, on 11/19/2008, -0/+15Not at all!
On most days, I don't even do 4 hours worth of work, I have to be logged on, but since I work from home, it's not a problem. And yes, I do get paid for a full day, I even get shift diff as my hours are not 9-5...
You just have to find the right line of business, and a 4 hour day with full pay, is not unheard of. - SirChasm, on 11/19/2008, -2/+16Wow, he was half right on his predictions. Amazing. Miss Cleo ain't got nothing on this guy.
- subliminalurge, on 11/19/2008, -0/+13Just remember to always look annoyed. If you look annoyed, people assume you're busy as hell.
- Hetman, on 11/19/2008, -0/+13I think Digg has proved this in most office jobs. 4 hours of work, 3 hours of digging 1 hour of lunch and any personal Items I need to get done.
- TheMachine1, on 11/19/2008, -0/+11All Diggers need to make their 2048 predictions.
1. I predict unless fembots are developed Diggers still will have a hard time getting laid.
2. I predict low cost microhousing will finely allow me to leave my moms basement. - emalen, on 11/19/2008, -0/+11If you think webmd = a doctor's visit, you will probably die very young.
- inkswamp, on 11/19/2008, -0/+11Anyone who has read Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 A Space Odyssey will see one of the most remarkable predictions from 1968 when one of the astronauts is described as sitting at a computer console aboard Discovery browsing all the news from the newspapers of the world. And this prediction came not only pre-Internet, but at a time when computer networking was still in its infancy. The funny thing about the description however is that it's described in pre-GUI terms which dates it a bit, but it's still an amazing bit of foresight.
- j0hnk377y, on 11/19/2008, -3/+13Does the SuperDome after Katrina qualify and make it 6 out of 10?
- sjbdallas, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10Yeah, and as I was reading it, sometimes the voice would get choppy and the images would skip.
- dhughes, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10 If managers didn't have meetings all day the coffee and donut industry would collapse!
- chuckDontSurf, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10I fail to see the downside of taking something already inherently dangerous and moving it hundreds of feet into the air.
- asgardshill, on 11/19/2008, -4/+14Thanks to George W. Bush, more and more American workers are "enjoying" a zero-hour workday these days. So I guess he was half-right.
- mediaspree, on 11/19/2008, -0/+10On any given day I do about 15 minutes of actual "work" in my 9-5 web development job.
- protodon, on 11/19/2008, -0/+9"Here's a pillow and a blanket and if you're looking for the bathroom, it's all around you"
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -8/+17don't forget 2001: A Space Odyssey... 1968 "visionary" masterpiece.
no seriously, ***** amazing film. - mikbunn, on 11/19/2008, -0/+9I read the space vacation one like the Moon educational video from the Simpsons.
"The moon. For several years, she has fascinated many. But will man ever walk on her fertile surface?" - justanotherday, on 11/19/2008, -0/+9And moving sidewalks and personal jetpacks!
- Scrappy1850, on 11/19/2008, -0/+9stfu! thats how i earn my living
- darlingt, on 11/19/2008, -7/+151. Spot on.
2. Missed it by about 10 years. That's more 1998.
3. Only kinda. The method is there, but the specifics are sketchy. Half credit.
4. Again, probably 10 years off. More 2018.
5. Half right. The Roomba is the only major one (at least in the US.)
So on the ones that he got "right", there's only one that's spot-on and two that are half right. 2/5 is not good, and 2/10 is even worse. - Tanktunker, on 11/19/2008, -0/+8We can still dream :(
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+8They ARE ants, Michael! They ARE ants!
- EarlOfLade, on 11/19/2008, -0/+8Not long ago, I had the pleasure of re-visiting this marvel of a movie and it still looks futuristic in many aspects, over 40 years after it was made.
This is truly one of the best movies of all time and if you have not seen the movie, WATCH IT! - kgd222, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8This is the third Roomba-related post I've seen on the front page today. Weird.
- sat0shi, on 11/19/2008, -0/+7Same, I work from home, work on average about 2-3 hours a day and make more than most people do for 8 hours or more of work a day. The problem is in the corporations really, they're not paying the workers enough money despite them doing all the work. When you work for yourself you (sort of) have a say in how much you get paid, and that is awesome.
- Yondelldude, on 11/19/2008, -0/+7Call me now for yo free readin'
- TheWorm, on 11/19/2008, -0/+7If people did as much work as they were in the office for, Digg would cease to exist.
- subliminalurge, on 11/19/2008, -0/+7I've got my job so automated at this point that some days I have trouble finding even 15 minutes worth of stuff to do.
- Elranzer, on 11/19/2008, -0/+6What line of business is that?
- 9bpm9, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5If by right you mean, sort of not really right, then yeah, they're right.
- jonshipman, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5Hell, I'm lucky if I do any more than 30 minutes of work a day.
- L0C0loco, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6The biggest mistake is that we do not spend 2 hours a day keeping up to date on advances around the globe and/or learning new things. This is why the US in particular is being surpassed in technology and overall economic growth by many other countries. We think it is too hard to use our brains. That thing inside your skull is working full time all the time whether you choose to put it to good use or not.
- desertDenizen, on 11/19/2008, -0/+5Who still works at a job? That's so 1998. I thought all Diggers were self-employed contractors, mobile and/or working from home. Well, lots of us at least. No better meeting room than Starbucks, I tell my clients.
- roomforpanic, on 11/19/2008, -2/+7And World of Warcraft.
- acknotSW, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6Miss cleo? Hell this guy is better then the weather man.
- Griminald, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Dugg for being a one-page article.
- desertDenizen, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Not a mistake... this is a shockingly accurate description of my day, including ~2 hrs on Digg, etc.:
FTA: "The average work day is about four hours. But the extra time isn't totally free… A jobholder's spare time is used in keeping up with the new developments — on the average, about two hours of home study a day."
Is it just me? Wow.
And kudos for putting this article on 1 page, not 10. - BoneheadFarker, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Controllable climate year-round, according to the article. But I don't think they've thought it all the way through...
- nycjap, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4Yeah, or those blood-pressure chairs at Wal-Mart? That's *almost* a doctor's visit, isn't it?
- secrity, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4It is funny to see the really old Bell System logo on the video phone booth in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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