"VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative." - Dan Bricklin It's interesti

"VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative." - Dan Bricklin It's interesting to me that VisiCalc (1979) and its successors (Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel) undoubtedly made some key business jobs vastly more productive and yet software spreadsheets don't really make a dent in the productivity numbers. I'd argue that software spreadsheets are a 'management technology' as the article defines them, but that they are a counter to the article's claim that management technologies spread slowly. They've been widely adopted by businesses of all scales, starting from the introduction of VisiCalc. Because of this, I wonder whether we are measuring productivity properly [0] http://theinventors.org/library/weekly/aa010199.htm http://theinventors.org/library/weekly/aa010199.htm