This is a topic which deserves more attention. It has been noted that a modern orchestra takes the same time to perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony as when he wrote it. What I want to also point out, is that if Beethoven were alive today, it would probably take him the same amount of time to compose such a symphony. All of our technological achievements do not necessarily make creative tasks faster or easier. I'll be so bold to suggest that changes (notice that I use that word instead of "improvements") in technology have the effect of displacing old ways of doing things. The old methods may have reached a productivity plateau--which doesn't imply that new things were no longer being done, but rather that artistic developments within a genre were displaying an increase in diversity.
In architecture, computers make us more productive, but the speed at which projects are delivered--from design initiation to occupancy--seems to have reached a plateau. Most significantly, good work takes time, and not even more money can make a good designer create something faster without compromising quality.
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