How do productivity programs most benefit the way we work and live? They enable us to save trees because we have become much less reliant on the use of paper at home and at work. They provide us with ways to communicate, display, and work with information more quickly and accurately. They push us into a new digital age in which all aspects of our lives will continue to become easier and less complicated. They make us less tolerant of waiting and working for communication responses, research results, and mathematical calculations.