This is definitely an interesting read. I'd think that in general, we as a civilization are moving closer to instant, on-demand gratification. It's not a trend

This is definitely an interesting read. I'd think that in general, we as a civilization are moving closer to instant, on-demand gratification. It's not a trend that's necessarily bad, but it does raise the standards in terms of speed, ease of access, and quality of service. The most obvious case is email. It started as an inbox and has turned into an extremely fine-grained, organized method. What started as a way to communicate has largely become "too slow" and now there's all sorts of AI to aid this: take Google's smart reply (on https://gmail.com https://gmail.com), for example, or Aiko mail's "quick actions" and one click email management (on https://helloaiko.com https://helloaiko.com). We're moving towards an age where it is largely becoming "too slow" to communicate with each other; people just want to press a button and have themselves expressed. Even texting, which is largely regarded as one of the fastest ways to communicate (_instant_ messaging), suffers from this--it started with autocomplete and Quick Reply, and now Facebook is changing it up with Messenger smart replies (on https://messenger.com https://messenger.com). Again, it's not necessarily a bad trend. It's just one that raises standards pretty high.