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Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:22PM (#31509296)
> Something would have broken, or you'd have to fiddle with some settings

I don't remember any trouble with screens or moving windows around or doing streaming video around that time.

> Also, which single cable would you have used to carry video and audio, and which could be plugged into a laptop and a TV?

Oh, I didn't realize you were suggesting the audio moved to the TV. Well HDMI came out a couple years later and didn't really blow minds.

Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by adwn on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @04:03PM (#31509796)
> Well HDMI came out a couple years later and didn't really blow minds.

Of course not. All of those improvements were, taken on their own, iterative and evolutionary – as nearly all technological development is. But taken together, they make a big difference.

Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive? by Dylan16807 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @05:29PM (#31510837)
Except I'm saying all those other things already worked fine. Your scenario is an incremental change between then and today. If you want that super impressive effect you need to compare against longer ago than 2002. If you do that in 1992, wow.

You could still do a 20 year comparison if you wanted, 1992 vs. 2012. Since the experience has barely changed in the last 10 years.