• DOI:10.1145/163298.163309
Corpus ID: 15074120

The productivity paradox of information technology

@article{Brynjolfsson1993ThePP,
  title={The productivity paradox of information technology},
  author={E. Brynjolfsson},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={1993},
  volume={36},
  pages={66-77}
}

• E. Brynjolfsson
• Published 1993
• Computer Science
• Commun. ACM

The retationship between information technology IT and productivity is widely discussed but little understood. Delivered computing power in the U.S. economy has increased by more than two orders of magnitude since 1970 (Figure 1) yet productivity, especially in the service sector, seems to have stagnated (Figure 2). Given the enormous promise of IT to usher in «the biggest technological revolution men have known» [29], disillusionment and even frustration with the technology is increasingly… Expand