Software Anybody?

Paul Krugman wrote an important article on the NYT about software.

The belief that software will make experts more useful, is wrong. Employers can get away with hiring less people, making more money, with more software.

I see a pattern here. Kids using calculators and goofing off on their basic arithmetic skills, College students copying and pasting, even Ph.D. thesis, like Al Gaddafi in the London School of Economics, in that case I should add that the money Libya gave the school also helped, but I digress.

The pattern is that most people are happy to produce the same with more powerful tools.

Employers are hurting themselves, and consequently hurting all of us, when they DO NOT KNOW, they can do more with powerful tools, the same, or why not, even more workers.

Oh well.