> We have had the ability to automate most work for two decades. Food, clothes, furniture, electronic devices, all of these could be produced with close to zero human labor. Why don't we?
We do a lot of things that we couldn't before. A lot of it produced loud laughter 100 years before.
If I understand it properly the author suggests we should find the time to play with these things. Who knows what might happen? It will no doubt be interesting.
Our indevidual performance is certainly mind blowing in a play settings. I see "players" do what seems impossible to me every day.
Because we actually can’t do those things?