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>Marc Russel writes:
>> As far as anyone can tell, computerizing the workplace has done almost
>> nothing for productivity.  

Jeff wrote:
>You must be on a different planet.  FAX machines, email, LANs, etc. have 
>increased productivity dramatically.

Actually, there was a study in '90 (or '91) that concluded that computers
in the workplace *hadn't* increased the productivity of workers, but *had*
improved the quality of the work.  Maybe someone can remember the authors
of the study.  Of course, I prefer the argument that productivity probably
has increased for computer literates, but has remained the same due to
the drag of trying to educate non-literates and bring them into the
computer age.  If this is the case, there will eventually be a very
dramatic payoff to computerized workplaces.  Stay tuned.

KC