Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Let’s be honest about all these calls for better personal digital assistants.

This one has to be the worst. This guy wants a drone to follow him, record his life, and do all the little tasks he mumbles during the day.

Where ever you are right now, imagine a small object hovering above the head of every person you see. Ridiculous? I think so. What is this? Let’s face it: a lot of tech “visionaries” have one thing in common:

They want their mommy.

I was blessed with wonderful parents. They fed, clothed, housed, and educated me. They put me to bed at night, woke me in the morning, washed my clothes, took me to the doctor, took me to baseball practice, and did all those countless other things I couldn’t do for myself.

I was a child then. I am an adult now.

Some visionaries don’t seem to get that last point.

Do you want to apply technology to real problems? How about a system of drones that work in disaster areas to enable the movement and delivery of rescue goods? How about software that coordinates all the non-coordinated organizations that try to help?

Software that anticipates your needs and makes restaurant reservations for your? Call you mommy.

PS: If the above sounds harsh, that was the intention. Some persons in the tech world need a different perspective.