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More accurate title: some aspects of technology have gotten objectively worse.

E.g. for cars, the whole touchscreen thing instead of knobs for things like temperature control is worse, but on the other hand cars are safer than they used to be.

Similarly, while yes there are some aspects of video games that have gotten worse, like needing to download a patch for an offline game, there's some stuff that's better: there's a veritable mountain of indie games out there with great content for a great price. WAY cheaper than games used to be, when you look at inflation.



> WAY cheaper than games used to be, when you look at inflation.

I recall $60 NES games in Toys R Us and a quick google shows that to be correct (for the top tier games). That's $130 these days!

And re: cars, they are so much more reliable and safe than previous decades.


How many cars are actually like that? I only know a few people with newer (2020+) cars and all of them have physical controls as well as touch screen controls. They're all Asian cars so maybe that's why, but anecdotally I've never seen a car completely controlled by a touchscreen.




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