"So many ordinary objects and experiences have become technologized—made dependent on computers, sensors, and other apparatuses meant to improve them—that they have also ceased to work in their usual manner. It’s common to think of such defects as matters of bad design. That’s true, in part. But technology is also more precarious than it once was. Unstable, and unpredictable. At least from the perspective of human users. From the vantage point of technology, if it can be said to have a vantage point, it's evolving separately from human use."
So basically: "You're too stupid to figure out how to use things, you think they are badly designed because they require thinking apart from a heuristic that you use, and then therefore in a word 'stupid' "
Sorry Charlie. That's not a defect. That's someone not wanting to deal with something well shitty (no one flushing because they are (also no pun intended) a piece of shit.
That's why automatic flush was invented.
Now if they didn't make toilets for your 3 year old (they do but that's a specialist thing and in a public area normally not a high priority outside of an elementary school) doesn't mean that the object is badly designed.
Tell this to the people who bought Fisker cars. Designs that require systems to stay online are likely to end in obsolescence while the can opener I bought in 1993 still works great.
They are paid. In money saved by not hiring childcare or a housekeeper. What is generally required here is honest recognition which we have a problem quantifying if not financially, thus this concept exists.
Now if women were paid fairly in the workforce, there would be no reason to do housework. They would be able to afford to hire out the housework.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 25.7 ms ] thread"So many ordinary objects and experiences have become technologized—made dependent on computers, sensors, and other apparatuses meant to improve them—that they have also ceased to work in their usual manner. It’s common to think of such defects as matters of bad design. That’s true, in part. But technology is also more precarious than it once was. Unstable, and unpredictable. At least from the perspective of human users. From the vantage point of technology, if it can be said to have a vantage point, it's evolving separately from human use."
So basically: "You're too stupid to figure out how to use things, you think they are badly designed because they require thinking apart from a heuristic that you use, and then therefore in a word 'stupid' "
Sorry Charlie. That's not a defect. That's someone not wanting to deal with something well shitty (no one flushing because they are (also no pun intended) a piece of shit.
That's why automatic flush was invented.
Now if they didn't make toilets for your 3 year old (they do but that's a specialist thing and in a public area normally not a high priority outside of an elementary school) doesn't mean that the object is badly designed.
Call me a misogynist if you like, but the idea that women should be paid for housework and child-rearing needs to be killed with fire.
Now if women were paid fairly in the workforce, there would be no reason to do housework. They would be able to afford to hire out the housework.
I didn't expect this myth to be trotted out on HN.