What we get wrong about technology

Source: What we get wrong about technology — ft.com

The point of this article will be clear to anyone struggling to use new technology in current processes.

The article stops short of future predictions but the insights from the past are illuminating.

To become really transformative, Electricity required the reinvention of the the manufacturing process, worker skills, factory architecture and more. Just sticking an electric motor where a steam engine originally was, did very little.

The same way that replacing a typewriter with Email and Microsoft Word actually does very little in real terms.



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