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The problem is not that the technical landscape has more tools and more technologies, it's that these technologies are way too visible.
There was a time when washing machines were simple, you had a bucket and some soap and your clothes. Everything about that could be instantly understood.
Later this evolved into these mechanical monstrosities that were really difficult to use effectively, and dangerous if used wrong. Electrocution was just one fo the many risks! There was an art to using these machines, a level of skill involved that made for quite a learning curve when getting started.
Then someone came up with a way of packaging all that up into an appliance that's simple and safe to use. There's electronics, software, electric motors and tons of other advancements all packed into a metal box that you put your clothes into, add some detergent, push a button, and they come out clean.
As an industry we need to think about "applianceizing" our technologies so that people can benefit from them without having to be directly exposed to them.
I think that's exactly what's happening right now. Awesome people come up with all these cool things and show us how technology can be used. What's the problem is that those cool things become popular really fast and all without proper testing or even proper implementation. We just add it to our build file and stop thinking about it.
Like I said before, I'm not against using new tech, but we shouldn't be in a hurry to use it as well. Rather stop and think about it for a moment.
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The problem is not that the technical landscape has more tools and more technologies, it's that these technologies are way too visible.
There was a time when washing machines were simple, you had a bucket and some soap and your clothes. Everything about that could be instantly understood.
Later this evolved into these mechanical monstrosities that were really difficult to use effectively, and dangerous if used wrong. Electrocution was just one fo the many risks! There was an art to using these machines, a level of skill involved that made for quite a learning curve when getting started.
Then someone came up with a way of packaging all that up into an appliance that's simple and safe to use. There's electronics, software, electric motors and tons of other advancements all packed into a metal box that you put your clothes into, add some detergent, push a button, and they come out clean.
As an industry we need to think about "applianceizing" our technologies so that people can benefit from them without having to be directly exposed to them.
I like the analogy, thank you for that.
I think that's exactly what's happening right now. Awesome people come up with all these cool things and show us how technology can be used. What's the problem is that those cool things become popular really fast and all without proper testing or even proper implementation. We just add it to our build file and stop thinking about it.
Like I said before, I'm not against using new tech, but we shouldn't be in a hurry to use it as well. Rather stop and think about it for a moment.