I'm not sure I see much compelling here. First off, all he's saying is that technology provides more information about the market. But technology has been doing

I'm not sure I see much compelling here. First off, all he's saying is that technology provides more information about the market. But technology has been doing that forever. Second, he's chosen a very simple example that has a measurement that maps directly to a single person and their economic value (journalists and how often their material is read). Try to apply that to teams (like software teams) in which a productivity is created by a diversity of personalities and specialty skill sets that are focused collectively on a problem - things get muddy real fast when you're trying to measure individual productivity in that environment. And that environment is where to the truly high value work is being done the modern global economy.