Tech Doing Our Chores

Are we lazy or just making room and time to expand our potential for thinking and creativity. Technology and the expansion of mobile applications has conditioned us to expect ease, efficiency and speed in almost everything we do. Once it came from sewing machines and dishwashers, later from Google and Kayak, and most recently from start-ups that provide on-demand services like Uber for cars, Instacart for groceries and Munchery for dinner. Economists think about outsourcing chores in terms of opportunity costs. If you can work during the hour you would have spent mailing a package, it would probably be a better use of your time — as, perhaps, would taking a nap, going for a run or spending time with your child. If it is put in that perspective, it might just be the best solution to our so called 8 day week. What people do not realize is the value of time. We all have the same 24 hours in a day so how is it that some people are able to make much better use of it? Being able to outsource chores had been made easier by our smartphones which are able to sense location. What do you think?