[codingdave]

I'm not sure I buy those examples - candles and lamps existed before electricity. People walked through snow. And my first startup in the dotcom days would have been considered "remote", despite no internet connections in our homes - we worked on a local system, and transferred code via floppy disks to each other and the clients.

So yes, we are too busy... but not due to pragmatic limitations - we simply have gotten too caught up in our work.