Not even wrong - ways to dismiss technology https://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/5/24/not-even-wrong-ways-to-dismiss-technology (thoughtful piece on distinguishing tech breakthroughs vs dead end toys)
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I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations).
Predicting the future is hard.
Do any tech streamers try new software live? It'd be a really fun way of doing UX testing.
There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail.
Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions.
Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.