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Does anyone think the internet has increased worker productivity?
I work for, and partly own, a 5-person company that sells scientific equipment all over the world. Our products are sufficiently specialized that we could not support our business on North American sales alone. We simply could not function without the Internet (which includes email as well as the Web, remember). So in our case, not only has the Internet increased our productivity, it actually makes our business possible. Cube farms full of surfing employees are a function of poor company management and leadership, not an inevitable result of the Internet's existence.
That said, I found the article remarkably shallow. And I wish people would stop referring to every supposed cultural change that comes along as an "evolution". There is enough confusion and misunderstanding of the word already, without adding to it by misuse.
