Where technology is concerned: “Information needs expand to fill available bandwidth.”
Where we used to have to fill in a one-page form, when automation arrived to make it quicker for us to fill in that form, very soon a ten-page form was required.
Reference: AI’s False Time-Saving Promise. Or Why AI Is Like The Vacuum CleanerBy Martin Gutmann, forbes.com, Nov 11, 2024. An article about how new “time-saving” technologies, such as vacuum cleaners, then computers, email, and now AI, increased workloads rather than reducing them.