Opinions

Why does Microsoft keep making things more complicated than anyone can possibly understand? How is this linked to their techno-utopian belief in the power of AI and digital assistants? Will it all go horribly wrong?

Remember: the goal of the tech industry isn’t to make the machines as intelligent as smart humans, that’s just too hard, the goal is to make humans as dumb as the machines, and in so doing, to create new billionaires – something it seems to be rather good at.