I'm surprised that even the desks and chairs have improved.
Their swivel workstation chair would be $450 in today's dollars. My chair is much nicer for much less money.
Sometimes we get fixated on how Moore's law or related effects are churning out better tech, but forget that this is against a backdrop of refinement towards better quality, less expensive consumer goods overall.
SOme of that goes on. But there's also the 'free market death spiral' where things get a little cheaper and a little worse in each iteration, until you can only buy broken crap for almost nothing. Or you can buy boutique goods at 1000X the price.
Their swivel workstation chair would be $450 in today's dollars. My chair is much nicer for much less money.
Sometimes we get fixated on how Moore's law or related effects are churning out better tech, but forget that this is against a backdrop of refinement towards better quality, less expensive consumer goods overall.