Wild. I’m a gadget guy, but even I’ll confess that I have a hard time keeping up with how to use all of the machines and such in my life! Katie Hafner really nails it in the NY Times today
She takes us through several cases where relatively simple devices that were once controlled by twisting a knob or pushing a button are now endowed with digital commands that can take hours to master.
This is exactly the problem I had when I went back to the future in Dubai. The hi-tech interior to the hotel and rooms was just that, hi-tech but unusable. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]