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The Productivity Paradox of the Spreadsheet
We explore how the spreadsheet, invented at Hewlett-Packard in the early seventies, fundamentally altered economic output by democratizing data analysis. Before this tool, financial modeling was a bottleneck reserved for specialized teams. Today, we examine the hidden costs of that ubiquity, from legacy code drift to the illusion of precision, and ask whether our reliance on these digital ledgers is actually slowing down long-term growth or creating new bottlenecks in decision-making speed.
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