Consumer products were less flexible than I was a kid, but also a lot easier to use. You bought a TV and turned it on and it worked. I wonder how much of that simplicity we could recover?
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A lot of the added complexity comes from the fact that so many things have user accounts now. Your TV, your exercise cycle, your newspaper, your photo album, they all want to authenticate and bill you.
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I remember renting a TV, then we bought one, yet now everything is a subscription. We don’t own most of what we consume anymore
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This is why crypto would be great. One address you could use everywhere. Currently crypto is a long way away from that with all it's myriad blockchains, but...
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Just wait until they do it to toilets!
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Imagine the level of data you could get from a toilet - health, hydration, diet, pregnant
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And track you
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This one is easily solved with a public - private key pair instead of all this terrible web2 bollocks
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One of my favorite hacks is to open electronics appliances and remove the speaker so they don't beep.
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Or hold a magnet near the CRT so that it narrowed to a dot when you turned on the TV ;-)
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Apple solves a lot of this for users in iOS, and is continuing to push Apple ID.
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