| ▲ | carefree-bob 9 hours ago | |
It's not just technology, it's very hard to detect the effect of inventions in general on productivity. There was a paper pointing out that the invention of the steam engine was basically invisible in the productivity statistics: | ||
| ▲ | robinwhg 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |
The first steam engine was invented by a Turk and he used it solely to make kebab spin. Never thought about using it for anything else. | ||