Technology doesn’t make life easier. It just moves the confusion to a different screen.
In theory, every new device saves time. In practice, it gives you another place to look for the setting you already knew how to use. The phone sends you to an app. The app sends you to a website. The website tells you to check your phone.
We've built a remarkable system for getting absolutely nowhere without ever leaving the couch.
Smart homes are particularly talented at this. You can turn on a light from another continent, provided you can remember which app controls it. And when the house starts asking for help, Smart Devices Need Wi-Fi Now feels less like a joke and more like a household policy.
Software updates are supposed to clear up the confusion. Instead, the familiar button moves, the menu changes names, and the instructions explain how things worked yesterday. Software Updates Fix Nothing New captures that particular form of progress.
We used to lose the remote. Now we can lose the remote, the app, and the password to the app.
According to Chad, technology has solved the problem of having only one problem at a time.
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