ARE you free? This oft-asked question is prone to multiple interpretations. Human rights activists will understand it in the context of larger freedoms; managers in offices will assume it means availability to speak, or to do something; others may have different answers, depending on context and questioner. To most, the colloquial understanding of the question has to do with the most common scarce resource: time.
Despite increasingly long workdays for many, the advent of technology in the workplace as well as the home should translate to a greater amount of free time. Why this is not already happening is. . .
