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I start from the firm belief that "technology X will never be worse than it is now." Whether you're considering voice interfaces, connection speeds, machine le
by caseysoftware 10y ago
I start from the firm belief that "technology X will never be worse than it is now."
Whether you're considering voice interfaces, connection speeds, machine learning, web development, phone battery life, or whatever.. things are trending towards the better. Sometimes it's steady improvement, other times it's punctuated. Either way, the floor on what we can considering is always increasing.
- nitrogen 10y agoThis is rather debatable when it comes to human-machine interfaces. UI goes through phases of improvement followed by radical degredation due misguided, cargo-culted redesigns. Take cars as an example. In my car I can adjust the airflow and temperature with a button and a knob, but in newer models a touchscreen or voice command is required that takes quite a bit longer.
- EliRivers 10y agoI start from the firm belief that "technology X will never be worse than it is now." While not quite what you meant, Firefox is frequently bloody awful now and it used to be quite usable :)
- caseysoftware 10y agoMozilla as an org is off the tracks and has been for a long time.
- ryandrake 10y agoCounter-examples: Privacy (almost always getting worse), security (no clear trend, but it would be hard to argue it's consistently getting better), usability / discoverable interfaces (debatable)
- caseysoftware 10y agoPrivacy, I'll agree with. I think security is getting better but what we see now are the consequences of years of poor decisions. It's the post-Christmas credit card bill.