Here are some things I believe about technology in 2025. I've had varying beliefs about it over my ~25 year career, and it will change again, so this is a snapshot in time. Here goes:

• Technology is for things or people.
• Understand who and what your technology is working for.
• The gig economy is on net, more negative than positive.
• The smartphone/mobile/social media era broke our brains.
• The internet is dead
• The internet being dead makes the human part of the web, when found, way more interesting and fun.
• The most interesting technology coming out are the ones that are removing screens. Airpods, Meta glasses, etc. I'm trying to limit the amount of distraction rectangles I have to look at on a daily basis.
• CarPlay/Android Auto are great. Yeah it's another screen in the car, but it's a mirror of the phone I know and it gets the car manufacturer's poorly made infotainment system out of my life.
• Speaking of cars, backup cameras are great too, but aside from that and the radio, I'd be happy with a 2005-Honda-Civic level of technology in my car.
• Last car point: knobs and buttons are better than touchscreens for the car.
• Netflix was great 10 years ago, it had everything for $10 a month. Now there are so many streaming services, the cost can easily exceed the price of a cable subscription. And there's still nothing new worth watching most of the time.
• VR can be cool, but I don't want that heavy thing on my head for a long time.
• AI will be terrible in every case that it's not used in the human user's interest.

I sound like a grumpy old man, but I do like technology still, and I'm still not bored from it. I'm just trying to keep it in the right places, and working for the right things and people.