From: There’s a major long-term trend in the economy that isn’t getting enough attention by Rick Rieder.
From the post:
As the chart above shows, people in the U.S. today are adopting new technologies, including tablets and smartphones, at the swiftest pace we’ve seen since the advent of the television. However, while television arguably detracted from U.S. productivity, today’s advances in technology are generally geared toward greater efficiency at lower costs. Indeed, when you take into account technology’s downward influence on price, U.S. consumption and productivity figures look much better than headline numbers would suggest.
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Hmmm, did you catch that?
…while television arguably detracted from U.S. productivity, today’s advances in technology are generally geared toward greater efficiency at lower costs.
Really? Rick must have missed the memo on how multitasking (one aspect of smart phones, tablets, etc.) lowers your IQ by 15 points. About what you would expect from smoking a joint.
If technology encourages multitasking, making us dumber, then we are becoming less efficient. Yes?
Imagine if instead of scrolling past tweets with images of cats, food, irrelevant messages, every time you look at your Twitter time line, you got the two or three tweets relevant to your job function.
Each of those not-on-task tweets chips away at the amount of attention span you have to spend on the two or three truly important tweets.
Apps that consolidate, filter and diminish information flow are the path to greater productivity.
Topic maps anyone?