In a review of Sherry Turkle's book Alone Together, John
Battelle notes a familiar experience in regards to technology:
"this cake ain't baked. I mean, think about it. Facebook: Not
quite right. Smart phones? Not quite right. Desktop computing?
Even though we've had nearly three decades of interaction, it's
still not quite right."  This issue is only going to get worse,
as more and more devices get connected to the Internet. John
referenced several separate instances of not fully baked
cakes... er, products. Those issues are magnified when a lot of
imperfect products are connected together in a network, whether
it be a home or work network - or the Internet at large. Plus
those products run on software that is never perfect and is
always being iterated on (an Operating System, as probably the
biggest example). And did I mention the problems with syncing
data across different devices?  I'll give you a quick personal
example. Over the weekend I had the latest in a long string of
frustrating experiences with tec