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Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does anyone else feel like technology - specifically consumer tech - kinda peaked over a decade ago? I'm 37, and I remember being awed between like 2011 and 2014 with phones, voice assistants, smart home devices, and what websites were capable of. Now it seems like much of this stuff either hasn't improved all that much, or is straight up worse than it used to be. Am I crazy? Have I just been out of the market for this stuff for too long?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Hell no. Fuck that shit

We had like 500 form factors for phones, now it's standardized

Resistive touch screens? Ewww

Like a billion mp3/MP4/ipod clones? Just to listen to music? A thing which now we can do easily on our phones?

Slow ass ssd/nand memory chips?

Freaking 1 core processors on phones, PCs and laptops?

Seriously someone misses their devices behaving like slowpokes?

Wireless audio devices that worked like shit unless they were extremely high end? Oh yeah wired worked great, but we were flooded with a ton of clones of those too. So no great quality from those "Skeleton Sweet" or "earpods".

Batteries that were in dire need of charge at least thrice a day?

Wireless routers that with any luck had gains that allowed to step out of the room?

Car wise, no stability control? You seriously fucking with stability control? That shit avoids like 25% of all car accidents globally

Medical wise, CRISPR? gene therapy for muscular dystrophy? Vaccines that can be whipped out in months?

Innovation slowing down? In what planet do you fuckers live on?

I'd say more but I think you get my point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I don't understand the downvotes. The tech may be less revolutionairy from the perspective of a user, but we absolutely made a lot of progress.