Increasing productivity is the main point of Information Technology. Of course, everything you can do with a computer, you could do with file cabinets and multi

Increasing productivity is the main point of Information Technology. Of course, everything you can do with a computer, you could do with file cabinets and multiplication tables, but the only goal of information technology is to increasing the speed at which you can process your information, ie. increasing the productivity of your users. That's why sales pitch put this forward. Yes, sometimes it's bullshit, and yet, sometimes it's not. Overall, productivity has increased since 1950, so that must have come out of somewhere...