[ZeroGravitas]

This is similar to the Robert Solow's 1987 quip, "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics."

Is a big part of this what exactly economists are measuring, and either they're right and we're just too close to see it, or they're missing important stuff when they measure.

And to be fair, I think the fax was pretty big in it's day for business to business communication.