Going slightly beyond armchair economics, here are a couple of articles which discuss the lack of evidence for internet-based productivity so far: https://arch

Going slightly beyond armchair economics, here are a couple of articles which discuss the lack of evidence for internet-based productivity so far: https://archive.ph/baneA https://archive.ph/baneA https://archive.ph/TrHYN https://archive.ph/TrHYN “Our central theme is that computers and the Internet do not measure up to the Great Inventions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and in this do not merit the label of Industrial Revolution,” — Robert Gordon, actual economist