I’m stating the obvious but there is no such thing as an upgraded reality. Reality (except for illnesses) was already perfect.
Everything we have added to the world has downgraded the world. We pollute not only the environment with waste but also our sense of reality with increasing layers of complexity.
The same goes with tech. Adding more devices and more interfaces and more complexity isn’t making our computing and devices easier to use.
It’s all becoming more convoluted, more bug filled, more intrusive and more expensive.
With so much complexity going on and all the companies pushing each other to have more complexity, it’s a race to the bottom for users.
Execs make more money from their stocks getting hyped and jumping on the next meme or the next bogus trend, but users end up with more frustration, more stress, more costs, more isolation and less time away from devices.
We have been begging for streamlined apps, less bugs, fix legacy problems, make operating systems interoperable again. Instead we are getting the opposite.
They are creating complex messy systems for people with money to burn on toys and that the poor can’t afford anyway. The opposite of accessibility and user friendliness, in a world where more people are living paycheck to paycheck.
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