It was imagined, or predicted, that we would work less and less and gain time for the pleasure of becoming better, wiser and more cultured. Idleness would no longer belong to the lazy and the fortunate, but would be available to all, or at least to many more. None of this happened.

We will be at a stage where we have moved from "docile bodies", as Foucault called them, to "docile minds", where control is done through the nurturing of expectations and illusions of happiness, well-being, pleasure and solutions to life's big questions.