{"id":218240,"date":"2019-12-01T01:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/adam-kay-the-technology-making-life-more-complicated-and-driving-us-crazy-the-times\/"},"modified":"2019-12-01T01:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:45:47","slug":"adam-kay-the-technology-making-life-more-complicated-and-driving-us-crazy-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/technology\/adam-kay-the-technology-making-life-more-complicated-and-driving-us-crazy-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Kay: the technology making life more complicated and driving us crazy – The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times,December 1 2019, 12:01am<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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