[NotSammyHagar]

I think we don't measure productivity of knowledge workers well, so we can't see how much progress we make based on IT changes. How do you measure the improvements that come from me sitting at my desk and coding up the OS? You measure second and third degree effects. You could argue windows doesn't matter compared to linux in productivity, but in either case the lives of pharmacists and ability to dispense drugs are much higher today than they were in the 50s. You can have robots count out the pills. The doc doesn't call my pharmacy, a computer manages telling them the prescription. We do have more drugs being prescribed, but I am convinced (I do need some evidence though) that the reason the economists claiming persistent lack of productivity growth is because we don't measure it accurately in the modern age. It's more that more comfort for pharmacists.