Higher productivity conflicts with their accepted goal of low student teacher ratios and with conventional wisdom on what is required for quality education.

FORBES: Why Fixing America's Schools Means Increasing Teacher Productivity

Companies are starting to take a serious look at consumption ratios of compute power to energy consumed and then compare them against estimated productivity of applications and the equipment to deliver that application.

FORBES: The Case for the Infinite Data Center

Real wages have not budged in two decades despite a doubling of student-staff ratios and a mounting paperwork burden, much of which paradoxically is designed to measure our productivity.

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