When tech lets us do things more easily, we do those things less reflectively. We are not thinking about where tech is pushing us.

Technology succeeds by making things easier. But that technological success can be disruptive.

When I upgraded from a typewriter to a word processor, that change did not increase the quantity of my word count output, it reduced it. It allowed my bias toward quality to move from the background of my artistic creation to the foreground. While I was getting bogged down in the first draft trying to smoothly integrate poetic depth and literary special effects into my prose, other writers were doubling and tripling their productivity.

I imagined that I could regain my productivity, and super-charge it, by getting into voice recognition software! I would dictate the first draft, brainstorming out-loud, and crank out a novel in a month! Perversely, I am unable to talk and create original sentences at the same time. Probably for the same reason that I can never think of the witty repartee until after everyone at the party has gone home.

So, while I imagined that technology would speed up my writing, when I moved from typewriter to computer, instead it emphasized my internal bias to getting it all "just right" in the first draft. Technology moved me, but not in the direction I anticipated.

Sometimes I think people are the reproductive organs of Technology.

[Naughty sexual analogy deleted]

@hg47