The Future

First of all, I’d like to get one thing out of the way so we can move on. The title of the post has to be read (either silently, to yourself, or—preferably—out loud) in a voice like the narrator of this video. Thank you.

Alright, where was I? Oh yes.

We live in an age where my operating system can auto-detect my printer and auto-install its drivers. But a corollary of Newton’s third law states, for every advance in usability there is always an equal and opposite set of new and baffling features.

Take “high altitude correction,” for example. I had no idea that printers could suffer from hypobaropathy. Hey Samsung engineers, can’t you just throw a barometer in there and auto-tune that setting yourself?

Whatever. It was kind of cool that I could auto-enjoy my dinner last night instead of spending two hours manually downloading and installing printer drivers.