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?

    • 9bananas@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      would be nice, but isn’t true according to Douglas Adams himself:

      Inspiration for the number 42

      Douglas Adams revealed the reason why he chose forty-two in this message .

      “It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’”.

      personally, i think it’s way funnier that it is actually, completely, deliberately meaningless ;)

    • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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      10 hours ago

      Fucking hell it’s true. This is exactly the kind of obscure nonsense I love, how did it take me 30 years to learn this?