alt Hacker News> Technology in the past few decades was (is) limited and humans had to adapt to it.
Was it? Think first about what it replaced. Lots of manual computation in bookkeeping and financial sectors. Telegrams and snail mail moved to email. Typesetting in books and magazines became easier and widely available,…
If there’s one thing that you can’t say about computers is that they’re limited.
No doubt that computers enabled a lot of automation. We can both agree with that.
The context was that technology should evolve to fit the humans [not the other way around]. And if contemporary technology didn't have limitations, it would be correct.
But it did and humans had to adapt to the computers. Humans had to develop and learn special languages so they could communicate with computers to do all those useful things you mentioned. Why? They were limited in understanding (or parsing) human languages. It took us decades before we could talk to computers in human languages. We're getting pretty close - especially in the past few years - but there's still some friction.