Broadly speaking, one can expect to see a shift of emphasis away from work towards education, training, leisure and recreation. The central importance in people’s lives of finding, keeping and progressing in a job will diminish. The housewife’s pattern of getting the older members of the family off to work and the younger off to school, and then having a day to herself for housework and peace and quiet on her own will increasingly be disturbed by more flexible modes and hours of work and increasing leisure and recreation time. This trend could become particularly important if, in addition to shorter working hours, there were greater opportunities for working at home, as we have seen could come about through a computing utility. At present people mainly go out to work because this is the only way they can earn enough to live comfortably, but it does also enable them to spend part of their lives in a wider community than the family. There is certainly a danger that the resulting patterns of living might impose considerable strains on domestic life. The home, and the family life, of five people will necessarily have to be organized very differently if all are essentially home-based than if all but one or two are out of it for much of the week. The attitude to the home will also change, from a place to which one returns for relaxation and enjoyment, a refuge from the workaday world, to the center for all one’s activities. The risk of generational tension here is obvious enough, especially in the early years, when the parental generation will be used to the idea of “leaving school and going to work”. Much more serious is the liability to alienation of homebased workers, such as those responsible for monitoring computer-controlled machinery, due to a sense of isolation. In such jobs the sense of involvement arising from everyday contacts would to a large extent be missing, and would need to be fostered by such means as frequent meetings to discuss how things are going, what new techniques are coming along which might mean changes, where organizational improvements might be made, and so on.