While we have some impressive technologies, the way we apply them to real life is usually at best boring, and at worst depressing as fuck. I can't name any tech

While we have some impressive technologies, the way we apply them to real life is usually at best boring, and at worst depressing as fuck. I can't name any tech introduced in the last 10 years that made my day-to-day life better or at least more interesting in some significant way. Kindle, maybe? Definitely not smartphones. My hopes for the AI field are dwindling. The current tide of hype will probably culminate in a few mediocre services from Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Etc. The services will have serious downsides, the downsides will be downplayed by the marketing, everyone will begin to integrate with them, and as a result we will get more complex, unstable and invasive software. I still have a lot of hopes for VR, since it's not widely available yet and there is room for creating fundamentally new things there during the adoption period. Hopefully, the ideas of Bret Victor will not go unnoticed.