For the purposes of this article; I'm not sure if it matters how we define productivity; only whether the Internet makes us "more" productive. I define product

For the purposes of this article; I'm not sure if it matters how we define productivity; only whether the Internet makes us "more" productive. I define productivity as being to finish something. I believe the Internet helps me--a a programmer--produce more efficiently. Some of that is social networks, because I'm hooked up to 400 or so programmers on twitter and often they can answer a simple question quicker than a Google search [despite the fact that I usually only go to Twitter to complain about my problem not to look for a solution]. Sites like StackOverflow--or even personal blogs--have saved me days or even weeks accomplishing "non-routine" tasks from consuming Twitter feeds to communicating with LDAP to securing a server with ColdFusion on it. I can accomplish such tasks more quickly by relying on the the knowledge of others; as opposed to having to discover it all myself. [Repeat last paragraph for things like libraries and frameworks whose circulation would be much more limited without Internet access]