Technology

It's like people standing in line at the supermarket instead of using the scan-it-yourself-and-self-checkout app. Why???

Some people like the human connection. Some are lonely. Some find the machines stressful.

Look, I'm a consummate checkout-machine-user and always go for that option, much as I always swipe my keyboard, but still, I get it. I actually think it's a shame that ordinary parts of our human experience that used to be mediated by humans are increasingly dwindling.

I mean, it gives people a job when there aren't a lot of options. I still, selling uniquely among my age group, prefer a checkout line. Then again I worked at a grocery and saw how they replaced 10 jobs with one person barely managing 20 self checkouts, so I'm biased.

I used swipe a lot until I got a big phone (a glaxy fold), with the wide screen I find I use swipe typing less and less. As soon as you can comfortably use two thumbs at once it gets much faster and you also dint have to worry about typing words tvat arent in the dictionary. I can tap type at 60wpm fwiw.