> Spreadsheets like 123 started becoming mainstream in the late 80s, then slow slide to "High Level" started. Then the trend greatly accelerated when presentati

> Spreadsheets like 123 started becoming mainstream in the late 80s, then slow slide to "High Level" started. Then the trend greatly accelerated when presentation software became mainstream. Before that, it was easier to talk details then to create a slide deck for an overhead viewer. I think that in some cases the absence of limits or costs can make things worse. Suddenly gets way cheaper to collect a bunch of numbers and analyze them? We'll no longer be careful and thoughtful about what we subject to that kind of analysis, because it's so cheap. My go-to example of this is kanban boards and similar tools. They clearly lose something if you translate them from a physical board with physical limitations to a computerized "board" with practically no limitations. The computerized version is better from some points of view (who likes limitations?) but also so different that it's arguably worse in some ways, depending on what you want the board to accomplish.