I'm unable to recall a single instance in my life where an automated system was more useful than talking to a human or having great documentation. From phone d

I'm unable to recall a single instance in my life where an automated system was more useful than talking to a human or having great documentation. From phone directory systems to automated help-desk responses, I've spent more time in recent years trying to get around an automated hurdle to talk to a human than waiting on a forum response in 2004 or sitting on hold back in the days of 1-800 help numbers. Chatbots were a predictable failure. Maybe I'm just older now. Settled in my ways so to speak. But I've dedicated my professional life my tradecraft of media production and publishing. At some point the technology tools stopped focusing on improving life or solving the problem. - The first VR movement was WAY too premature. - 3D TV's were DOA. - 4k+ / High resolution is a drastically misused/misunderstood medium and technology. - The current VR movement just simply doesn't have a platform that can support the level of processing and bandwidth needed to be worthwhile. - Apple has lost it's way. - I don't even know what Google actually does now, but I cared more when the search engine was amazing. - There's too much media, not enough curation. - Blogs and personal websites were the golden age of great information - RIP copy editors - Social Media is a game of smoke and mirrors - WHO IS CLICKING ON ALL THESE ADS?!? Nobody I know, yet the big players are making billions? Are the ads worthless? Are we going to wake up one day to see the internet crashing and burning the same way cable television is? Don't get me started on newspapers. - AR is back? Why?!? - I'd love for RSS to make a comeback, if there was anything left to subscribe to. - AI seems to be the future but I've yet to be impressed. The things that are promising are far out of reach from everyday users that it just seems far far away at this point. - Fortnight seems to have hit the nail on the head.