Working with your hands: the secret to happiness?

Working with your hands: the secret to happiness?by Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/working-hands-happiness-burkeman


"Our physical surroundings no longer hold our attention, and we start to succumb to what Crawford calls 'virtualism' – 'a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy.' This is the vision peddled by numerous commentators on the future of the internet: an ethereal, anchorless world in which all we do is exchange ideas, where everything is funded by advertisements for everything else, and in which all that matters is the production of knowledge – not the sewers and electricity networks and kitchen tables and washing machines on which the knowledge-producers will still presumably rely."