Comments on: Kurzweilonomics 101

By: Karl Hallowell

Karl Hallowell — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:00:45 +0000

I’ll be a grinch. These productivity numbers could also just be a result of fiddling with how various economic statistics are reported rather than an actual characteristics of the economy.

By: Nicole Tedesco

Nicole Tedesco — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:30:44 +0000

From the perspective of a software architect, it seemed to me that most of the "productivity gains" brought about by computerization during 1990s were more about increasing the productivity of programmers and other information technology professionals. In other words, it has taken us about 20 years (from about the time the PC was introduced) to now in order to get our act together just enough in order to positively affect our society's economy in a significant way. As always shown under any successful economic dynamic, you can thank the standardization processes stimulated by Web technologies, Unix/Linux, Sun/Java and Microsoft for the fact that we have "gotten it together" as well as we have.

By: triticale

triticale — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:03:16 +0000

When Tetris first arrived from the then Soviet Union I theorized that it had been written at the behest of the KGB for the puurpose of dragging down the decedant West.