Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER TEN

The Manager and the Moron

THE COMPUTERS, DESPITE ALL THE EXCITEMENT they have been generating, are not yet economically important. It’s only now that IBM is shipping them out at a rate of a thousand a month that they’re even beginning to have an impact. But we haven’t begun to use the potential of the computer. So far we are using it only for clerical chores, which are unimportant by definition. To be sure, the computer has created something that had never existed in the history of the world—namely, paying jobs for mathematicians. But that is hardly a major economic contribution, no matter what the graduate dean thinks.

So the economic ...