Elsewhere you promote the benefits of IT as a driver of economic growth. The arguments you use are convincing. Still, it is a little disappointing to have to accept as we work harder and later into our lives that an earlier promise of information technology might never come true, or not in our life times.

Whatever happened to the dream of hedonism we were once led to expect? Surely, new technology should help us work less, but instead the incentive seems to be to take advantage of technology and work even harder! Your equations may make intrinsic sense, but it seems to me we are still getting the wrong answer.

—R.M. Delucenay, Lyon, France

©OECD Observer No 240/241, December 2003