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Writing Posts Tagged 'Technology'
- State of Technological Dissatisfaction • May 14, 2008
The human condition is this: we're restless and dissatisfied, and that drives our constant technological innovation. Which explains why I'm so irritated I can't sync my Firefox profiles between computers without hassle.
- Broken Technology • April 21, 2008
Why is so much technology so goddamn fragile? Most software can't repair itself -- and even when it can do rudimentary repair work, like replacing accidentally deleted files or Windows Registry entries, it's not smart enough to know when it needs repairing.
- Keeping Up with the Kludges • July 30, 2007
The world is shrinking. Products and laws and programs that were once created with tens of thousands of relatively homogeneous white people in Middle America are now being exported all around the world. How are we going to be able to keep up with all the kludges necessary to make things work?
- The Jukebox in the Sky • January 17, 2007
Is music distribution going to follow the RealNetworks Rhapsody model and become a "jukebox in the sky"? Or are people going to continue buying tracks to store on their own systems?
- Why Is Gmail So Irritating? • December 20, 2006
Gmail should be a slam-dunk for Google. So why is it so irritating?
- Why Does MySpace Suck So Badly? • August 7, 2006
In an effort to spread the word about my book "Infoquake," I've been experimenting with MySpace. MySpace is an abomination. Nothing works. The things that do work are poorly designed and shoddily implemented.
- Limits on Speed, Limits on Freedom • July 26, 2006
Technology isn't always about giving us more freedom to do things we couldn't do before. Sometimes technology can help precisely by taking away our freedoms. Small, inconvenient, and irritating freedoms. For instance: speed limits.
- The Web Is Imperfect • December 28, 2005
The Web is making slow progress in separating content from presentation.
