ASTINA LAY

               Working hours ought to have started being reduced decades ago, gradually, 10 minutes one year, 5-10 minutes a year or two later and so on without reducing the salaries and wages. A gradual reduction is in my opinion a much preferable way because initially the 5-10 minutes are not "missing" from the work output, especially in the office. The difference would have been noticeable when the subtracted minutes accumulated but employers would have time to adjust.               As automated machines keep doing more and more in production of goods and services, replacing humans, the working hours must gradually keep decreasing. If employment doesn't increase, which some use for an excuse (see some French's claims and excuses) nobody can proove that unemployment will not increase if working hours stay at the levels they were. By the way, for being just, in another sociol-economic matter, pensions, as l...

If only computers were...1,000,000,000  times faster or so. With digital technology it's like everything has been written and awaits for humanity to be discovered and been seen. An hour's video is a combination of about 4,000,000,000 bits, (500 MB) exactness is absolutely unnecessary for this treatment of the subject, that is 4bn 0s and 1s written (etched) for example on a DVD with hills and valleys. Every other video is off course another combination of 4bn 0s and 1s. All that have been created and those that will be created will be written with another combination of 4bn 0s and 1s. If we could find among these combinations the ones that make sense, with super-intelligent codes running on hyper-fast computing devices, we would have been able to see them. With 2 bits there are 4 possible combinations 2**2, with 3, 8= 2**3 and with 4bn bits, 2 to the 4th billionth power, combinations. This is about 10 to the 1,200,000,000 power. 10**1,200,000,000 which will be rounded to...