>French said he and others in the industry are certain the home computer will revolutionize home life, making still more time available for leisure and other ac

>French said he and others in the industry are certain the home computer will revolutionize home life, making still more time available for leisure and other activities. A perfectly reasonable assumption at the time - why not use these tools an inventions to make our lives easier? In many ways this has come true, mostly in the communications sector. Now even a 'basic' smart phone has more computing power than what could be imagined at the time of the article. So we've moved from 'computers in the home' to 'computers in our pockets' as a natural development within Moore's Law. What the article clearly didn't account for, and I don't see how it could at the time other than very vague postulation, is how these tools have also forced working people into strange relationships with technology, some of them harmful. As in, the 'ghost phone' feeling of missing a call, or feeling a compulsion to keep checking social sites for the latest update, or expecting people to be within reach and contact 24/7/365. These aren't new mental hang ups, per se, they're just exacerbated by the ease of use of tools which can create a loop of sorts. Lastly, articles like this, which are positive and were informative at the time, can benefit from different perspectives on occasion. The one that I was compelled to research was the relationship between US worker Productivity and Wages. A quick look around and I found this[1]: >Though productivity (defined as the output of goods and services per hours worked) grew by about 74 percent between 1973 and 2013, compensation for workers grew at a much slower rate of only 9 percent during the same time period, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/02/labor_gap/04e656c70.png http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/02/la... Yes, there are many, many factors involved regarding that kind of trend over ~40 years, but I genuinely associate computer technology as playing a significant role. [1] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-the-gap-between-worker-pay-and-productivity-is-so-problematic/385931/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-the-...