Or as Scott Adams expressed it in chapter 1 of "The Dilbert Future":

Good trend: Computers allow us to work 100% faster

Unexpected bad thing: Computers generate 300 percent more work

Here's a sad anecdote:

This is from a courthouse, they have a web application to register and edit formal requests from lawyers. Decent computers, ok network and printers.

From:

  - listening to the lawyer, 

  - (potentially reloging due to session timeouts),

  - accessing the right case through a long ID, 

  - re asking the lawyer about the case ID because half the time they confuse with another ID system, 

  - retrying to fetch the case, 

  - selecting a bunch of options (most are direct mapping from ID to value, ID is actually concatenation of these values) 

  - clicking a few more times, 

  - reinputing some the already redundant values and waiting for the system to generate the .odt. 

  - If that does not fail, you get an activex embed view of the document, 

  - which is 10-15% of the time incorrect in a few places, so manual edit here we go.

  - You can now print it x2

You spent 5 full minutes on this.

One day, network failed so no more web app. Girls told me they have a stash of old printed templates to fill manually. So I took the piece of paper, and while talking to the lawyer I could write things on the fly. It took 30 seconds, no wait, no uncertainty, no redundancy, no last minute error correction.

Middle age monks > 2000s technology (when implemented in absurdia)

yup, computers help us solve problems that we would not have without them

Link to the strip - https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/08/17

Is C&H text searchable? Great find otherwise!

The fuck. Its actually searchable!

I tried googling this - summer is butter on your chin site:https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/

found it instantly.

Looks like every strip has a transcript embedded in the markup right under the image, which is very thoughtful of them.

It is! https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/

> If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently.

This is actually why I still use a French press for my coffee every morning. I don't need to be hyper efficient all the time. That 15-20 minutes of my morning is relaxing, leisurely.

You brew your coffee for 15-20 minutes?? French presses are nice though :)

Grinding, boiling, to adding water to the grounds, then it takes 5 minutes. So ~10 minutes to boil the water, 5 for the actual brewing, and then 5+ minutes of just, whatever time.

5 minutes alone outside in the morning air, alone with your thoughts, sipping a cup of freshly brewed coffee.

On good weather days, it was -15C or so this morning (so I ended up shoveling snow instead of relaxing like normal, got some exercise in though).

Garfield puts a tray of heat-up lasagna into the microwave, which turns on for one second, then shuts off.

Garfield: These microwaves take forever.

> If we wanted more leisure, we'd invent machines that do things less efficiently.

Relevant XKCD? https://xkcd.com/303/

Of course! Rust was designed by the head of the chair-jousting advocacy committee. It all makes sense now!