The People Do Not Yearn For Automation

Nilay Patel on software brain: “a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases and loops”:

that is pure software brain: the idea that we can force the real world to act like a computer

Folly.

I’ve reviewed a lot of tech products over the past decade and a half, and all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people.

Computers 👏 should 👏 adapt 👏 to 👏 people.

the tech industry is rushing forward to put AI everywhere at enormous cost […] and locked into the narrow framework of software brain without realizing they are also asking people to be fundamentally less human. They then sit around wondering why everyone hates them.