Has Productivity Peaked?

Putney Barnes writes "A columnist on silicon.com is arguing that computing can no longer offer the kind of tenfold per decade productivity increases that have been the norm up to now as the limits of human capacity have been reached. From the article: 'Any amount of basic machine upgrading, and it continues apace, won't make a jot of difference, as I am now the fundamental slowdown agent. I just can't work any faster'. Peter Cochrane, the ex-CTO of BT, argues that "machine intelligence" is the answer to this unwelcome stasis. "What we need is a cognitive approach with search material retreated and presented in some context relative to our current end-objectives at the time." Perhaps he should consider a nice cup of tea and a biccie instead?"

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Obviously...

[Digital Vomit]

Unfortunately I am now approaching stasis. Any amount of basic machine upgrading, and it continues apace, won't make a jot of difference, as I am now the fundamental slowdown agent.

Obviously Mr. Cochrane has never tried using Microsoft Vista.

Ah ha

[proxy318]

What we need is a cognitive approach with search material retreated and presented in some context relative to our current end-objectives at the time.

Oh is that what we need? Maybe we can synergize our core-concepts to think outside of the box, thereby ensuring we work smarter not harder, and then we can leverage our paradigms to holistically obtain next generation perspective.

Is it so damn hard to to say "we need a new approach"?

Re:Cough

[bloobloo]

Dude, this is slashdot. We don't want talk of intelligent design here.