11.30.06
Productivity limit
Check out this article about the peaking of productivity. In this short article, this guy talks about how organization and technology have allowed him to dramatically improve his productivity. His new bottleneck is himself. The limiting factor in organizational and technoogy is that they are simply tools- they do not provide intelligence.
However, as soon as we are able to have intelligent technology, its will put man’s necessity in a new light. If 100 workers can be replaced by a machine, what do you do with the workers?