Vol. 24 No. 254 (2019)

Twenty-first century technology to sheer muscle
The massive irruption of technology promised an almost ideal world. A more relaxed life was approaching, with a reduction of working hours that would allow access to free time dedicated to relaxation, leisure and physical recreational activities. And in addition robots were coming: physical effort would continue indispensable in sport but unnecessary for the labor world.
For some, this premonition happened. But for many, those who lead many global endeavors applied from cell phones, it is the other way around: job insecurity, endless working days with minimal retribution, non-existent rights concealed behind a discourse on independent entrepreneurship.
They are necessary and sweaty bodies that add fabulous profits for these technological giants of the 21st century. Similar bodies, efforts and systems of exploitation built the Pyramids in Egypt, the Coliseum in Rome and extracted coal in the subsoils of the Industrial Revolution, to the satisfaction of the powerful people of each era.
Tulio Guterman, Director - July 2019