We’ve all heard of that future, and it sounds pretty lonely. In the next century, the line of thinking goes, everyone will work at home, shop at home, watch movies at home and communicate with all their friends through videophones and e- mail. It’s as if science and culture have progressed for one purpose only: to keep us from ever having to get out of our pajamas.
— Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Staff Writer in the San Francisco Chronicle, published Tuesday, January 5, 1999
Notes:
- Quote via Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A History of Walking“
- Photo via NY Times: “How to Quarantine Yourself“
Live & Learn 
Scary thought.
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Yes. And sad.
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Could he have ever believed a pandemic would make this happen sooner, rather than later?
I find this so sad. Even the ever-self-proclaimed introverts (coz they’ve all come out of the woodwork during this time) feel the need to now and again go out there and “people”.
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Yep. Agree Dale.
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It worked. Especially the pyjama part!
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Laughing, I somehow can see you in this attire.
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When I fold laundry for the household it is 90% pajamas now.
Don’t tell me you’re working from home in a suit, please don’t.
Being the Queen of barefoot, even outdoors, I don’t know how I’m ever going to go back to shoes all day, someday!
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No Suits! Queen of barefoot…Ha! I can see that. Does the crew carry you on a chariot?
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Laughing, no chariot!
But they run after me yelling carrying my shoes.
And they like to remind me that I’m a village/farm girl.
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We all run after you carrying your shoes.
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More prescient than he likely realized at the time….
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Once again, having to look word definitions up before 7am. 🤔
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Laughing. SHE does it to me all the time.
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Yes, yes he was.
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HH can’t wait to see his sand pit friends again.I think he’s getting tired of spending the days in my company…. Although he is a loner in his heart. But we can go out and do shopping, now certain visits are ok, we can get to restaurants, on the lake, etc. So, we are truly blessed and fortunate.
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Awwww, yes we are.
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🙂🙃 HH had mail before lunch, requesting employees to continuously work from home as much as possible….. As per Swiss laws he wd be allowed back in office but…! 🙀🙈😷
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🙂 Good! Unlike the madness here!
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‘He’ was less impressed…. I was happy to hear that! 🙂
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It flies in the face of our needs as a species…we need to need each other, see each other, touch each other…and it makes me so sad
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Mimi, it’s the lack of physical contact, not being able to sing and make music together that’s such a “killer”.
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I totally agree…this is an unnatural state of being
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Unnatural in a surreal world…
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I like having the option to do things from home as needed or wanted, but not living this as a way of life. that would be a very bleak future in my eyes.
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Bleak. That’s the word that captures it. Right there.
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So depressing.
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Yep
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My, wasn’t that a bit prophetic? And they probably laughed at him.
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He was predicting social distancing…
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He was!
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Definitely prescient!
We are relational beings. We need eachother! That future is not very enticing!
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We are!
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Lonely
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Very.
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Let’s prove him wrong and stay in our……sweatpants! *sigh* Nope, no difference, David. Cher xo
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Laughing. Thanks Cher.
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😉 xoxo
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