Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Thanks for all this stuff, version. I'll have a read of it presently.
All I'll say for now is that I've thought for a long time that what we need is both better technology and a lot less of it. Quality not quantity. It's astonishing how much software gets released that clearly just is not up to the job, that requires patches before it's usable or represents a step backwards from the previous iteration. And this is specific to computer and phone technology - it doesn't happen with cars (say) because nobody would put up with it.
But there is definitely a tendency to automate things for the sake of it, and the result often isn't just gratuitous, it's worse than what we had before, whether it's self-service checkouts or bus stops with a fucking smartphone code instead of a timetable.
All I'll say for now is that I've thought for a long time that what we need is both better technology and a lot less of it. Quality not quantity. It's astonishing how much software gets released that clearly just is not up to the job, that requires patches before it's usable or represents a step backwards from the previous iteration. And this is specific to computer and phone technology - it doesn't happen with cars (say) because nobody would put up with it.
But there is definitely a tendency to automate things for the sake of it, and the result often isn't just gratuitous, it's worse than what we had before, whether it's self-service checkouts or bus stops with a fucking smartphone code instead of a timetable.