I'm way too young to have experienced this myself and maybe this is something that has over-all been forgotten, but going back a few decades and looking at comp

I'm way too young to have experienced this myself and maybe this is something that has over-all been forgotten, but going back a few decades and looking at computer content from the 70s/80s it's amazing how crazy people got about spreadsheets. And that's for a good reason: It was a massive productivity boost. These things have been driving our economy for a few decades at insane levels of productivity.