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A Shift Over 35 Years Devices Logical To Reasonable

a shift.

software and hardware used to be expected to only be logical.

in say the year 1990 or so.

predictable.

like a word processor on a home pc, or even a computer-controlled opponent on a video game.

input in, run through the code, expected output out, every time, program stops.

program/device isn't ever connected to the network, or very rarely for a onetime download of some kind.

a shift.

now in 2025 some shifts are alreay here.

people, we, and i, somewhere along the line those 35 years, accept it if the software and hardware are reasonable.

I now someware in those 35 years, started expecting the software and hardware to always be connected.

to the internet/network.

Now at some point over the 35 years,  I expect the software to update (change) automatically periodically.

IN other words i accept it if the software changes and I have to learn the new behaviors. (the software is teaching me).

In those years between i started thinking its fine if the software and hardware has a few bugs in it.

In those 35 years somewhere along the line i started being OK with it if the device / software (/programmers / users on the other side of the device/connection/software) makes new suggestions that I hadn't predicted/expected.)

I woke up this morning and thought.

over the 35 years at some point, more people, we, and I. are accepting it now in 2025 that devices/software/programmers/corporations are telling us what to do.

including lying to us.

in software, how can the user tell the difference between a bug and a feature?

sometimes the user can't.

so now if my PC browser, or my smart tv, or my mobile device, flashes a product a specific for-profit product recommendation at me, about once a week or so randomly, now, at some point before, so already now, i think that's OK.

1990 me would be horrified.

what doe it mean?

so its like we are accepting the idea more and more that, software is ok for it to act like a person.

we are treating sofware like people.

lol and people have been treated like machines for hundreds of years too now (workers in factories / workers at companies i mean).(or laborers in the king's fields in the year 1000)

in conclusion, in 1995 computers and software devices did what we told them to, they were logical and static and predicable.

we thought of them as machines.

In 2025, computers and devices and software do that but also 5% of the time or so, we are allowing them to be unpredictable and 5% of the time allowing them to tell us what to do and 5% of the time i have been accepting that a device will act reasonably.

epilogue here.

note:  computers should either be slower than people, or faster than people.

note:  this is also a way how we can tell they are computers.

note:

also, its about trust in another way.

in 1995 i wanted my computer to be mission critical.

as i do still today.

always do what i wanted it to do, never do what i didn't want it to do.

what if i'm in military war combat?

then it pops up me an ad in my browser desktop for a video game unsolicited?

and it distracts me, and then i get killed because device distracted me.

but somehow in 2025, my pc is doing that.

so to repeat, it's about trust.

My viewpoint is I'm always doing mission critical stuff.

However at some point the device and servies, decided it's ok to send random pop up ads to my device during the day randomly, distracting me from whatever they think i'm doing. It's as if the device and service maintainers assume what i'm doing isn't mission critical and is ok to be interrupted.

disrespectful, the device and its services should do nothing, including no popups, unless i told it to do something.

And so about pop-up ads for stuff that I don't want, as for dark patterns showing me an ad and not allowing me to x out of it, showing me ads when i don't want to see them, suggesting i use device features that I never wanted to, and giving away my geolocation data and giving away my search habits and  etc.

to sum it up.

Let me put it this way:

It's about trust. My device is now acting in ways that, if a person acted that way to me, I'd be mad at them. But since it's a device, now who is there to be mad at?

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#0162, lemonmama.com, by author Drunk Rookie, with commercial interest, 2025-10-11.