[hnboredhn]

I do think everyday behaviors have more single point of failures than they used to. The complexity has just gone up (with the example of needing to use the internet to get a parking spot) so almost by definition there are more ways it can go wrong.

That being said, I think you are just glorifying the past a bit. Watching on-demand television was impossible 15 years ago. People were still using tivo's you had to set ahead of time. I personally call my barber because its easier than the computer - and most places have both options.

[Damogran6]

The fact it was bad in the past doesn’t mean it isn’t weirdly, differently bad now.

Like navigation applications where you can see the instructions because every oddball application is notifying you and hops over the navigation, sometimes WHEN YOU REALLY NEED THAT INFORMATION.