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?

  • Redredme@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    The question op is posing is:

    Which new tech?

    In the decade op’s talking about everything was new. The last ten years nothing is new and all just rehash and refinements.

    ML, AI, VR, AR, cloud, saas, self driving cars (hahahaha) everything “new” is over a decade old.

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      6 days ago

      AI is not technically new, but generative AI was not a mature technology in 2014. It has come a long way since then.