A bit, perhaps. The real hero is digital technology. Put aside quality and think about economics. A cheap chip in the cheapest plastic watch will keep time better than Big Ben will uncorrected. A calculator picked up in a drugstore produces accurate sums, over and over.
Quality is abundant.
Work through his logic. In the future, victory will not be decided so much on product quality, since product quality differences are narrowing. Apple Computer is enjoying a comeback, in part because it saves its customers time from the growing complexity of Windows computing. Simplicity's advantage will grow as the Web levels the old Windows advantage of plentiful software. I recently took up flying.