WFH rhythms

The early days were heady, but then the warts started becoming visible

While COVID-19 may have rekindled interest in movies such as Pandemic and Contagion, society seems to be moving towards what Alvin Toffler had envisaged in his books Future Shock and Third Wave. During my college days in the late 1980s, the two volumes were a staple with every book shop and pavement seller. From the random reading of reviews, I got to know that the books talk of an information society and the rapid changes that will happen in a “super-industrial” society when technologies get outdated fast. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn,” was a regular Toffler quote. Third Wave talks of the concepts of telecommute and home becoming office, thanks to computers.