6,017 words
Stefano Boni
Homo confort: Le prix à payer d’une vie sans efforts ni contraintes
Paris: Les Éditions L’échappée, 2022
For several years I worked freelance for a company which specialized in controlling indemnity claims on behalf of automobile insurance companies. Like many others, the company published an annual in-house magazine which included cheesy personal interviews with managers and heads of departments. One of the questions asked was, “What would be your optimal invention and why?” Without exception, all those asked named some fantasy invention which would reduce personal physical effort in one way or another. One manager expressed the wish for a perfect robot that could do all the housework in his home. I asked people in the company what the manager thought...