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C|Net News says:
The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state. It makes sense to me. Some years ago, I argued at a conference, only partially tongue-in-cheek, that the invention of the copying machine was responsible for the then-worrisome issue of stagnant productivity. In the BX (before Xerox) era, one scribbler could only waste the time of seven of his or her fellow workers, the maximum number of legible carbons that could be made on a typewriter. The copying machine meant that an infinite number of people could waste their time reading the latest ranting.
With the invention of the word processor, coupled with the Internet, standards such as PDF and Word, and multimedia, some small number of writers and creators -- perhaps 100 -- could occupy the entire work time of every person on the planet.
We are doomed.
posted by James DeLong @ 8:17 AM | General
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