There are many technologies that everyone uses, even when there are many better tools for the same purpose. What is the biggest one?
#1
AI, hands down.
Every new product or update now includes some fancy schmancy AI feature that no one wants, never works as advertised and slows everything to a crawl. My gosh-darn toaster needs no intelligence.
#2
Apparently there is such a thing as a ‘smart’ water bottle that tracks your water intake via Bluetooth. But hey, it also lights up with rainbow colors.
#3
All Influencers on Tiktok.
#4
Autocorrect. No, I didn’t mean to type : You are my worst enema.
#5
Smart watches
#6
I was going to say smart TVs but it is already on the list. I’ll go with built-in navigation systems in any vehicle. Phone projection has always worked better in most cases and can potentially have other integrated features as well. The phones are faster, can be updated much more easily, and preserve more individual choice in the apps.
#7
Touch screens for every function in cars. Companies do it to 1) Save money, and 2) Provide a certain aesthetic that appeals to people who like “form over function”.
My friend’s husband has a Tesla and says she has to go into the touchscreen to open the glove box!
It’s dangerous and inconvenient for the driver. I have a 2020 Leaf and it is a really great car. It has every button and k**b you would ever want on the steering wheel or dashboard (except for some reason a button to pause music, there is just one to mute everything, which would include map navigation).
It also has a touchscreen for many additional things you would only ever fiddle with when parked (like the million settings it has, Android Auto, etc.)
#8
E-Cigarettes.
Jokes on you, Imma live longer than you. I smoke O X Y G E N.
#9
Self checkout machines at stores.
I understand that the idea of it is to act as a glorified self checkout lane, but I feel like it takes way longer to finalize a sale on a self checkout lane than it would a regular checkout lane.
Plus, one issue that tends to arise is that self-checkout lanes, at least whenever I do grocery stores requires a cashier to approve any discounts that I might need to get approved, and that sometimes takes minutes. However, at a regular checkout lane, the discounts get approved way quicker.
#10
GPS. I’ve seen people rely on GPS in places they know very well, or should know well enough to not use it.
I’ve had to redirect cab drivers to routes I knew were fast and/or smoother, just to get into an argument about it because it’s not what their GPS says.
There have been times people have been led to dead ends, closed streets, traffic jams or gone down a more confusing, longer path because they relied on GPS over their better judgement.
#11
Apps for everything… Being able to connect anything and everything to the network… Lights, fridge, thermostat, etc… Leave me be in my old ways…
#12
Any appliance that’s “Smart”. Including TV’s.
#13
Maps that place the user in the center with their direction of travel headed to the top, instead of having north at the top. It’s worse- if possible- when people follow step-by-step narration so they don’t even know where they are. Read the map and have it pulled up if you need it.
#14
Hand mixers. My old one broke on Thanksgiving. Hubby decided to buy me a new one. It has 5 speeds. Its a hand mixer. Im whipping taters, not doin Motocross.
#15
Smart Phones. I will agree that a cell phone can be lifesaving, but why must I be online all the time? My totally unfashionable flip phone will allow me to make or receive calls and messages. That’s it. And I love it.
#16
Google Docs
#17
The wheel
#18
Voice jail.
#19
I’m going to sound like some old geezer for this… but honestly, the Internet as a whole. I remember life before it, and it was generally better, in a lot of ways. For example, if someone wasn’t feeling well, they went to a doctor to find out. They didn’t rattle off a whole host of various diseases that they found by googling their various symptoms. News didn’t travel half as fast, so police had more time to actually investigate crimes. As opposed to having to deal with internet sites like reddit going on witch hunts and sending them in entirely the wrong direction, like what happened with the Boston bombing.
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