Return to the Garden of Eden? Learning, Working, and Living

It is an old dream of humankind to return to the Garden of Eden and live a life of abundance, free of all work and pain. Desires would be satisfied immediately without any effort. However, when all wishes get fulfilled, how would that change the nature of wishing? Would thinking of anything outrageous remain possible? THE JOURNAL OF THE LEARNING SCIENCES, 9(4), 505–513 Copyright © 2000, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.