The tech industry keeps promising to make life easier. Somehow, we keep getting more clicks, more apps, more subscriptions... and more frustration.
Here are some wonderfully painful vocabulary for modern digital life:
🤖 AI-horning — adding AI to things that really didn’t need AI
🧩 Captchore — repeatedly proving to a robot that you’re not a robot
💬 Botiquette — wondering how polite you should be when customer service might be a bot
🛒 Baggravation — the special frustration of fighting with a self-checkout
💳 Hostageware — buying a product, then discovering you need a subscription to properly use it
📶 Schrödinger’s wifi — simultaneously “connected” and completely offline
Funny? Definitely. But there’s a serious point underneath the jokes: technology isn’t progress if it adds more friction than it removes.
Maybe the next big innovation shouldn’t be another AI feature. Maybe it should simply be making technology less annoying.
Which tech frustration deserves its own word?
#Technology #AI #DigitalExperience #UX #Innovation
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/dickovers-baggravation-botiquette-18-new-words-tech-hellscape
Here are some wonderfully painful vocabulary for modern digital life:
🤖 AI-horning — adding AI to things that really didn’t need AI
🧩 Captchore — repeatedly proving to a robot that you’re not a robot
💬 Botiquette — wondering how polite you should be when customer service might be a bot
🛒 Baggravation — the special frustration of fighting with a self-checkout
💳 Hostageware — buying a product, then discovering you need a subscription to properly use it
📶 Schrödinger’s wifi — simultaneously “connected” and completely offline
Funny? Definitely. But there’s a serious point underneath the jokes: technology isn’t progress if it adds more friction than it removes.
Maybe the next big innovation shouldn’t be another AI feature. Maybe it should simply be making technology less annoying.
Which tech frustration deserves its own word?
#Technology #AI #DigitalExperience #UX #Innovation
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/dickovers-baggravation-botiquette-18-new-words-tech-hellscape
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