Computers No Longer Increase Productivity
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Dyske Suematsu
Jul 23, 2011, 11:22:07 PM7/23/11
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In the last 10 years, I don’t think computers increased our
productivity. The processing power of our computers increased
dramatically in that period, but for the vast majority of things we do
on computers, the increase in power is actually irrelevant because the
bottleneck is our brain powers; how quickly we can respond to
computers. For instance, as I type this essay, my computer is using a
tiny fraction of its power. The computer I was using 25 years ago had
more than enough processing power to handle what I’m doing right now.
In terms of writing (which is still a huge chunk of what we do on
computers), the advancement in computer hardware was pretty much
irrelevant. It didn’t make us write any faster, because the bottleneck
is our own brains, not computers.
Read on: http://dyske.com/paper/942
productivity. The processing power of our computers increased
dramatically in that period, but for the vast majority of things we do
on computers, the increase in power is actually irrelevant because the
bottleneck is our brain powers; how quickly we can respond to
computers. For instance, as I type this essay, my computer is using a
tiny fraction of its power. The computer I was using 25 years ago had
more than enough processing power to handle what I’m doing right now.
In terms of writing (which is still a huge chunk of what we do on
computers), the advancement in computer hardware was pretty much
irrelevant. It didn’t make us write any faster, because the bottleneck
is our own brains, not computers.
Read on: http://dyske.com/paper/942
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