The well-known Solow paradox is named after the winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, who pointed out that “you see computers everywhere except in statistics on productivity”.
As is shown by the article elsewhere in this issue of the impact of IT on growth, the contribution of information technology on productivity is still hard to measure. They do, however, make an important contribution to the improvement of products, as Pierre Bonnaure argues, taking the example of automobiles.
He sets out to show how car manufacturers have introduced more and more IT into their products and highlights the resulting advantages, for example in terms of safety and comfort.
L'informatique et l'automobile
This article is published in Futuribles journal no.259, décembre 2000
