• Computers.
  • 2018-02-17 Facebook
    • The question needs to be answered as to why “investing in and improving the process of knowledge creation and accumulation itself” leads to increased productivity.
    • That, first of all, “productivity” is ILL-DEFINED.
    • Such terms should be NG words first.
    • In other words, change the angle to why it is worthwhile to generate knowledge.
    • That’s because there’s now a lot of interconnected components on the market.
    • Uh, and not just because of the prevalence of devices that create value through knowledge.
    • In other words, it’s a computer.

I had forgotten about this post, but in Intellectual Production of Engineers Before and After I mentioned that “the last 100 years was the first time in human history that we were able to [Words make tools.


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