Economists are divided about whether the Internet changes anything.
Some see a big jump in productivity, but others aren't so sure. Certainly any further acceleration in TFP growth will have to come from that direction. This is not a discouraging view, because in the immediate future there are several promising trajectories that should be noted as holding still largely untapped potentials for productivity growth. One of these trajectories is the much-discussed expansion of interorganizational computing via the Internet. The diffusion of teleworking is a third trajectory that has major potential for savings in infrastructure capital, as well as through the reduction of the costs of measures required to abate pollution and environmental degradation in congested urban areas.