Once AI works frictionlessly in daily life, it stops feeling marvelous
_FelixSimon_ · x · 2026-11-11
Journalist Felix Simon observes that once a breakthrough technology like AI actually works without friction in our daily lives, it quickly stops feeling like a marvel — a phenomenon described in STS as the "domestication of technology."
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