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productivity wise 70's and 80's peaked with those thin terminals with every action carried out by keyboard... workers tapped at light speed due to muscle memory

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > productivity wise 70's and 80's peaked with those thin terminals with every action carried out by keyboard Computers only started showing up in nationwide productivity figures in the 80s to 90s.
• Wytwwww 2y ago
  > GUI is sexy but like short videos ultimately did nothing for the user That's a stretch. I guess it increased the productivity (measured in amount of "work" done, not necessarily something useful) expectations for most workers which effectively did nothing for them because they still need to work as much even if modern software allows them to accomplish much more in the same amount of time. So t might make sense in that regard. > workers tapped at light speed due to muscle memory That's great if we're mainly talking about robotic tasks than can be mostly automated to only require a fraction of those clicks but wasn't for some unclear reasons.