Ask HN: What popular technology today will be viewed negatively in 5 years?

Excessive touch screens. When a button fails, you can hotwire it. You can fix it by yourself. When a touch screen fails, the entire system fails, you cannot do anything.

Internet connected apps. Most of the installed app on my smartphone are useless if not connected to the internet, even though the device's storage, processor, RAM is perfectly capable of handling the data, and processing it, sometimes better than the server it is connected to.

Why do I have to sign up to use a guitar tuner?

Why the mandatory updates, when if you don't update you're app is useless.

On my PC, I can run a 20 year old program just fine

Distant learning. A teacher will be the last job in the age of automatization everything.

gpt 7 will be hunting us down

AI Military drones

AI Police drones

Boston Robotics

Sam Altman

Will be viewed? Already are viewed.

Touché!