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WHAT IS TO BE DONE
Barry Jones is a former Labor member of the Victorian and Commonwealth parliaments who le d the campaign to abolish the death penalty, and became Australias longest-serving minister for science, from 1983 to 1990. His books include Sleepers, Wake! , A Thinking Reed , Dictionary of World Biography , and The Shock of Recognition . The only person to be elected as a Fellow of four of Australias five learned academies, he became a living national treasure in 1997, and was made a Companion in the Order of Australia, the nations highest award, in 2014.
To Rachelthe present, and Emlyn
(aged six)the future.
He has concentrated my mind
wonderfully.
Scribe Publications
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Man is but a reed, the feeblest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him. A vapour or a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his killer, for he knows that he is dying and that the universe has the advantage over him. The universe knows nothing of this.
Thus all our dignity consists in thought. It is on thought that we must depend for our recovery, not on space or time, which we could never fill. Let us then strive to think well; that is the basic principle of morality.
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Preface
I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been for.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (1881)
Sleepers, Wake!: technology and the future of work , first published in 1982 , was an attempt to describe the impact of technological change, especially the information revolution, on employment, industry, education, and training. I aspired to make a grand synthesis, linking politics, history, economics, science, technology, education, the concept of time-use value, psychology, and information theory.
What Is to Be Done is not an update or a revisiontoo much has changed since 1982but a sequel, addressing the massive global changes that have occurred since.
A post-industrial work force, the digital revolution, universal access to higher education, and the emergence of a third age after retirement were all novel concepts in 1982, and even after the last revision of the book in 1995. Now we take them for granted, but they did not develop as I had hoped.
There are nearly 5 billion users of the Internet, more than 60 per ce nt of the worlds population.
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