> I tried doing my laundry without a smartphone. This proved to be difficult, since our laundry machines can only be operated with a smartphone app. After lots

> I tried doing my laundry without a smartphone. This proved to be difficult, since our laundry machines can only be operated with a smartphone app. After lots of struggle, I finally managed to do it, leading me to reflect on whether technology is actually making our lives better. On the current maniacally forced through and intentionally neglectful way (arbitrarily picking the superiority of a narrow concept over all else) it is not. Not at all. In the past 10-15 years the usability of technology is degrading. Got only overcomplicated, unnecessarily overwhelming (using it in places unnecessary or harmful), not better in making life easier. Just relocating the difficulty and complexity somewhere else, to some previously unkown domain. Be it gadgets, operating systems, home appliences, vechicles. Things went wrong somewhere by some reason. (rampage of clueless investment money? huge technical organizations serving only themselves? ...)