I have a feeling that future generations will be as amazed by our current technology/standard of living as past generations would have been. I'm enjoying it while it's available. Globalization means the poor get richer and the rich get poorer. There's no place to go but down for us.

Singular is right: technology is erasing the difference between work and home. Even before telecommuting, cell phones, and Blackberries, a lot of people worked at home as well as in the office. Now it's worse, because you're never out of touch. Your boss can call or e-mail you even when you're in Hawaii on vacation...and does.