Sometimes I imagine myself going back in time, back to the middle 80's, or even early 90's, and showing to my past self the crazy devices we have right now. It's a funny exercise, I think I'd see a current 200 bucks cellphone as an alien device.
Although I think me from the past would be pretty excited and me from the present would be pretty envious to stay in the 90s, when computers were boring but made for helping users in their tasks instead of trying to influence them into what corporations want them to do.
Even as late as the early 2000's, a corporations software 'phoning home' without the users knowledge (and explicit consent) was a minor scandal and a real privacy concern. Now such behaviour is so commonplace, it is unremarkable.
It’s too bad because we have truly awesome tech but it’s just full of traps and we aren’t allowed to own our own devices anymore.