[payne92]

It's very difficult to say: "productivity" has changed because the "products" that we work toward have changed.

You spend an hour screwing around with a software problem while editing your video, but you're editing 4K shot on a consumer camera, not 8mm black and white film with no sound.

You lose an hour to some stupid router firmware problem, but a 30 min later, you are Facetime-ing with a friend and her new baby (not even possible for most people 10 years ago).

You reboot your phone to clear a weird Wifi problem, but 10 minutes later you're driving straight to the store that has your product in stock, while getting routed around a huge traffic jam. While listening to the radio show (er, podcast) you missed last week.

I think tech is really changing social interactions (and not entirely in a good way), but the time and headaches of life are still there -- they're just further up the abstraction stack.