Technology is making it easier to make things worse

Lou Reed may have made this remark specifically about the ubiquity of MP3 players and how their technological limitations reduce audio quality.

Yet the same can be said for many innovation initiatives. New technologies make it easier to create. Easy to use 3D CAD, ideation programs, brainstorming software, and rendering programs allow any person to create.

Technology is indeed making it easier for make things worse.

If the postal clerk in the next cubicle can create photoreaslitic rendering of his idea, what is the value of the idea from a professional designer?

How are business managers expected to discern the difference between good design and bad?

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