Then people don't use them. The more things you turn into computers -- televisions, clocks, ovens, washers and dryers, cars, books -- the fewer people who can and will use them. The products do more IFF you can master their complexities, but otherwise they are less useful or completely useless.
This is one reason I don't watch TV anymore. My standard for a user-friendly TV is to push one button to turn it on, and twist one dial to see what's playing. I do not like TV enough to invest any more energy than that. So at this point, we watch one DVD episode of something a night, and that's because someone else works the equipment. I don't care enough about it to do it myself.
Further consider that the more complex things become, the easier they break and the harder they are to repair. Since America is rapidly getting poorer, this also undermines the market for and use of fancy gadgets. But it's not something people track; they're only watching the part of the economy that chases the the newest release trying to keep up with the Gateses. And then they wonder why it's so sluggish.
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Date: 2014-09-13 07:17 pm (UTC)This is one reason I don't watch TV anymore. My standard for a user-friendly TV is to push one button to turn it on, and twist one dial to see what's playing. I do not like TV enough to invest any more energy than that. So at this point, we watch one DVD episode of something a night, and that's because someone else works the equipment. I don't care enough about it to do it myself.
Further consider that the more complex things become, the easier they break and the harder they are to repair. Since America is rapidly getting poorer, this also undermines the market for and use of fancy gadgets. But it's not something people track; they're only watching the part of the economy that chases the the newest release trying to keep up with the Gateses. And then they wonder why it's so sluggish.