“In this era of laziness, we no longer want to want”

Lvideo replaces reading; home delivery, outings; and voice messages follow SMS. In a book you're bound to hear about, The Age of Laziness (Editions Buchet-Chastel), university professor, liberal economist, essayist and “producer of ideas” Olivier Babeau is interested in our society in which he notices a new evil: laziness.

What might seem like a simple symptom of a world flooded with technology would, according to the author, constitute a real disruption. And that would be serious. “The civilization of the least effort does not resemble the imagined paradise, but rather a world of depressive zombies,” assures Olivier Babeau. Interview.

The Point: You write that we would have entered…