It's hard to tell if any given technology has led to real productivity increases, or just led us to hallucinate productivity increases given the number of littl

It's hard to tell if any given technology has led to real productivity increases, or just led us to hallucinate productivity increases given the number of little tasks we can fire off with technology. This has been studied; there's too many variables to say "email increased profits 500%!" If it's too complicated to say one technology is where all the value lie, it's going to be extremely complicated to say Google's existence is meaningful. We can lean on the fundamental social truism; it's a front to act as a bloom filter for the US dollar, and busy work for people that might otherwise topple the government.