The paradise is usually defined as a place where people would live happily supported by an indefinite amount of freely available resources. No effort, labour or production would be needed so that economic activity as we have traditionally understood it would cease to exist. The immediate consequence would be that there would be no payment of wages and, as a result, an infinite level of unemployment would be obtained. Industrial technological progress has been promoted and has brought us some way to achieving the goal of paradise. Indeed, increasing productivity through the production of goods (the electronics industry is a case in point) provides precisely an example of falling production prices. Extrapolation of these trends to industrial manufacturing as a whole could produce a situation of, on the one hand, great plenty and, on the other, of zero employment and zero availability of money. As can be seen, the road to paradise is beginning to look very much the road to hell. And hell is, of course, the inevitable terminus of all extrapolation. This is an instance of the apparently rational driving us towards the most irrational of situations.