the article starts out with (paraphrase) "decades and/or centuries ago, we expected tech would save us incredible amounts of time, but it didn't." if you had a

the article starts out with (paraphrase) "decades and/or centuries ago, we expected tech would save us incredible amounts of time, but it didn't." if you had a computer in 1984, and somebody told you what processor speeds would be in 2014, you might have expected all software to run flawlessly by now. as it is, everybody has more computing power in their pocket than the entire Apollo moon landing ever had, and we use this power to look at pictures of cats. there's probably an economic principle explaining both of these failed prediction categories. in either case, what people do with the new abundance has a lot more to do with what they're willing to tolerate in their lives than what the technology is actually capable of. great tech will only produce great results if you choose to do great things with it.