Where has all the productivity gone?
I find it hard to agree with the article.
With the escalation of technology the amount of things I get done every day, like, tangible, countable things, has skyrocketed, even more as my education with that technology went up. Not just programming and admin stuff, that includes stuff like art (cheaper, takes less time, gets nicer results) which some people argued would never ever be a replacement for traditional art (I still do some traditional things but I don&#x27;t have shelves full of materials anymore). Not to mention new avenues like 3D modeling, I don&#x27;t need a huge studio and large chunks of rock to create a 3D figure anymore, and there are ways to make it a real sculpture if I wanted. Music composing, I don&#x27;t need several hundred dollars in instruments anymore (nor a complex soundproof studio). I don&#x27;t need rooms full of machinery to make code or plan complex network arrangements, etc. And for the things that still need to be done the old way©, there are better tools, information and whatnot.<p>Most of my computer tasks are automated via scripts and homebrewn programs.
Maybe I&#x27;m some sort of rare example of the third point in the article (&quot;The productivity is here, it’s just only harnessed by the indistractable few.&quot;), but I doubt I&#x27;m special in any way. It&#x27;s not like the past had no distractions, and I&#x27;d argue distractions in the past were harder to dismiss (having to personally travel to X place to do Y paperwork instead of resolving that with a quick phone call or digital process).<p>Sure, the pandemic made a few disasters in terms of paperwork and bureaucracy turning extremely slow, but I&#x27;d blame that more on poor organization than a side effect of technology.