The progression of inefficiency

I have thought about the irony of this from time to time, so I though I would write it down:

1970’s: The promise: Workers save 20 min every morning by driving their own car to work rather than waiting on a bus or walking.
The reality: Workers waste an hour in traffic each morning.

1980’s: The promise:  Computers will save time by letting us type it once and print it multiple times

The reality:  Workers waste an hour a day dealing with paper jams in dot matrix printers

1990’s:  The promise:  Microsoft Office will save us time by eliminating spelling errors and providing all the formatting options available from outside print houses.

The reality:  Workers waste an hour per document trying to fix small formatting errors.  An entire generation is born that will never know how to spell receive or which homonym to use.

2000’s:  The promise:  More features in the OS and larger hard drives will give us a paperless office, saving time looking for lost papers.

The reality:   Workers waste 20 minutes each morning waiting for their bloated OS to boot up and hours each day looking for lost documents in their huge hard drives.

2010’s:  The promise:  The cloud will save us time by allowing us to save our data and use our programs from anywhere.

The reality:  Slow transfer rates make fedex faster than large file transfers.  Losing your internet connection means your entire system is down.

If you think of any others, please leave a comment!