Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
For a long time, the Lighthouse Performance Score was the page speed metric to track. Often, sharing a perfect 100 Performance Score was considered a sign of success. But as the page speed evolves, we need to critically evaluate if the metrics we’re using are still relevant and helpful.
Sometimes, though, a slippery slope is real. In the early days of the automobile, some critics feared cars would take over city streets — and that we’d get so addicted to car travel that we’d rebuild the whole country around cars. Those critics nailed it. That really did happen. The same thing goes with Facebook or other social media; some early critics predicted they’d poison social and civic life. Again: Nailed it.
This is not, of course, an exhaustive set of questions, nor do I claim any unique profundity for them. I do hope, however, that they are useful, wherever we happen to find ourselves in relation to technological artifacts and systems.