Most of today's technology keeps us busy but does not make us more productive. Productivity via the hand of technology requires a true commitment to develop te

Most of today's technology keeps us busy but does not make us more productive. Productivity via the hand of technology requires a true commitment to develop technology that augments human activity rather than replace it. Since that is most certainly not what we do with modern technology, we end up with systems that poorly replace humans and provide terrible interfaces between humans and those systems. Thus, it keeps us busy but not productive. With regard to consumer technology, it is explicitly designed to keep consumers more busy than productive. A productive consumer gets in the pool and gets out. A busy consumer gets in the pool and stays there until the skin wrinkles and still lingers.