How To Cut Work Week by a Fourth

Younger people have a hard time realizing that it wasn’t that long ago the World Wide Web was a novelty, accessed with painfully slow dial-up modems. Widespread use of the medium now taken for granted arrived within the past two decades. At the outset, access required one to be tethered to a computer, but no more, of course. We can check email, Facebook and use Google to settle bar bets on our phone, sometimes by using voice commands. Teenagers take all this for granted, of course, in much the same way some folks of my generation believed that color television was an inalienable right and that...

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