Economically these are not different from technology in general. We can do more with less. There are two side to that statement.
We can do with less. The first two points are especially relevant to this side of things. The most "talented" can be extremely productive. What if Google search & Gmail could be built and run by 14 talented individuals? Duckduckgo seems(ed) like an experiment in this direction. Doing with less is not necessarily painful or revolutionary though. Often, it's smooth. The answer to a lot of "how did people do ___ before computers" questions is "secretaries."
We can do more. That has been the overwhelming result of technological change up to now. Better tools -> More stuff gets made. Most of the resources freed by "doing with less" go into doing more. Agricultural machinery frees peasants to work in factories. Industrial robots free laborers to work as social marketing content creators. Progress.
We can do with less. The first two points are especially relevant to this side of things. The most "talented" can be extremely productive. What if Google search & Gmail could be built and run by 14 talented individuals? Duckduckgo seems(ed) like an experiment in this direction. Doing with less is not necessarily painful or revolutionary though. Often, it's smooth. The answer to a lot of "how did people do ___ before computers" questions is "secretaries."
We can do more. That has been the overwhelming result of technological change up to now. Better tools -> More stuff gets made. Most of the resources freed by "doing with less" go into doing more. Agricultural machinery frees peasants to work in factories. Industrial robots free laborers to work as social marketing content creators. Progress.