A lot of people assume technological success is measured in sophistication. The bigger, the faster, the smarter—those are the metrics that get attention. But what if that’s the wrong way to think about it? What if the real question isn’t how advanced is this technology? but rather how much does it actually help people?
This isn’t a new mistake. History is full of examples of people marveling at complexity while missing the point. The early personal computers were like this. Engineers obsessed over hardware specs and memory limits while regular people just wanted something useful. The
