The feeling that tech's promise is to make everything easier yet its constant failures and inconsistencies and growing complexity are making everything much, much harder.
Or to put it another way, spending far more time trying to make things work than their working will ever save us.
@robpike I see this most reflected in my Dad. He's a smart guy, but at 85, is swimming in a world of needless complexity. We took away always-on phones that just take a sequence of digits, and replaced them with ones that need to be charged, muted, unmuted, and rebooted. We replaced TV channels with apps, all with different and constantly shifting UIs. We replaced software with SAAS portals that are never the same from one day to the next, and require separate passwords. *I* can barely keep up.
@wolf480pl
Tech already exists as the #Beckn protocol
https://becknprotocol.io
Political will might be the problem.
@juliank @nuxi @robpike
@tetrislife That protocol seems really really complicated, and its documentation misrepresents HTTP. I think it needs more work before serious adoption. However, it's a good start, and the hard work (identifying the real-world requirements) seems to have been done.
@wizzwizz4 I only know of its existence via a real-world implemention #ONDC https://ondc.org