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It's not just technology, it's very hard to detect the effect of inventions in general on productivity. There was a paper pointing out that the invention of the

It's not just technology, it's very hard to detect the effect of inventions in general on productivity. There was a paper pointing out that the invention of the steam engine was basically invisible in the productivity statistics: https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/crafts.pdf https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/crafts.pdf

robinwhg 8mo ago
The first steam engine was invented by a Turk and he used it solely to make kebab spin. Never thought about using it for anything else.
- efreak 8mo ago
  On the contrary, this was actually used for something. The aeliopile is quite a bit older and was used for precisely nothing.