Adam Kay: the technology making life more complicated and driving us crazy – The Times

Fridges that tweet, byzantine apps to park your car, in-built obsolescence. Technology is supposed to make life easier. Why does it so often do the opposite, asks the comedian and bestselling author

The Sunday Times,December 1 2019, 12:01am

In a few weeks time it will be 2020, the absurdly futuristic date that has somehow crept up on us. But, unless scientists get a real chivvy on, the future looks both baffling and remarkably underwhelming. Where are my holidays on the moon and food capsules? Im pretty sure that when I was playing with my Duplo, I wasnt fantasising about a world where we had wi-fi kettles and an app that tells me I havent stood up enough today.

Sure, its not all bad. People live longer, once-fatal illnesses are now either eradicated or survivable and The Jeremy Kyle Show has been cancelled; but I do wonder whether the march of technology is really leading us onwards, or just making life needlessly complicated and

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Adam Kay: the technology making life more complicated and driving us crazy - The Times