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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by dendriti on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:11PM (#31499867)
Literally 100% of the documents I process are sent to other people. So collaboration and sending documents are core functionality.
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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by Spivak on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:00AM (#31500473)
It’s even stronger than you suggest, the actual “word processing” bits turned out to be a vestige of a paper world and “collaborative text editing” was actually the killer feature.
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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by fomine3 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @01:55AM (#31501068)
I wonder why we use paper layout on Word/GDocs despite it never be printed.
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