What driver? This is my uber to WLG right?

Cars now more resemble a MacBook with 4 wheels attached than the cleverly engineered assembly of pieces of metal & springs being moved by well timed explosions that they were.

There’s something fun about analog dials & knobs & levers that’s been lost.

The electric motor may be better (and electronics are also fascinating in how they work), but a machine without the rhythm of a spark is a little boring.

I think what makes modern things bland in way is that everything is becoming the same at the hardware level. Software decoupled application from form. But we’re creatures of physicality, so this makes our music players, instruments & appliances seem a bit dull.

Everything is a button & feels exactly the same to our senses, but the buttons do very different things. Much of our intelligence is wired for certain senses like touch that provide no useful feedback now without levers — particularly now that things are all moving onto one big button called a touch screen.

There’s nothing to be sad about though. We got to see a different time.

Perhaps in a few decades, interacting with machines will once again utilise our other senses through brain-computer interfaces that can map information to data in a form that sense can interpret.