Please read an article about productivity online at httpccsm

Please read an article about \"productivity\" online at http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/ccswp202/ What is the expected long-run impact of information technology on productivity and cost?

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In the article it is not clearly specified the impact of Information technology on productivity and cost because of existing limitation son measuring the productivity and cost of information technology on firms and overall US economy. Also the article urges to find better way in future to measure the productivity and cost of information technology on overall economy.

Also the article suggested some research topics where they specified the negative impact of IT on productivity and cost during certain periods and positive impact for longer period, however the data collection errors exists, so can’t predict the exact correlation on IT and the productivity.