Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive?
by nobodyandproud on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @08:31AM
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> Paul Krugman once asked, if you go into an average house right now and you take out all the screens, could you tell that you're not in the 80s?
My robot vacs say yes, you can.
By the way, Neato’s robot vac regressed from its peak, completely autonomous models like Signature Pro from 10 years ago, to the cloud only lineups of today.
Sometime during the last 10
years was when data harvesting became more important than real consumer tech.
Peter Thiel and industry counterparts are directly to blame for consumer regression and the “world
not changing much”.
My robot vacs say yes, you can.
By the way, Neato’s robot vac regressed from its peak, completely autonomous models like Signature Pro from 10 years ago, to the cloud only lineups of today.
Sometime during the last 10 years was when data harvesting became more important than real consumer tech.
Peter Thiel and industry counterparts are directly to blame for consumer regression and the “world not changing much”.
Sorry. They don’t get a free pass.