Can Technology Become Smarter Without Becoming More Complicated?
Our phone runs a neural network to pick the sharpest frame every time we take a photo, yet the whole interaction is one tap. That gap is the story of modern technology: the machinery keeps getting denser while the thing in your hand keeps getting quieter. We tend to assume intelligence and complication rise together, but the most important products of the last decade prove the opposite can happen. The real question is not whether tools can get smarter without getting harder to use, but where all that hidden difficulty actually goes.