Computerization demonstrably failed to lift productivity statistics for decades.

Evidence

“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Robert M. Solow, “We’d Better Watch Out,” New York Times Book Review, July 12, 1987, 36. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 445

Categorization

• CANDY: A tidy, memorable quip (Solow’s productivity paradox) that lands with almost no context needed.