Do you remember when installing a 4G network was considered groundbreaking? Or when the launch of a shiny new app was enough for a company to claim its seat at the innovation table?
Those were the halcyon days of “tech for tech’s sake”. It was a time when simply adopting technology was seen as a win, regardless of whether the solution fitted the problem. Often, those were solutions in search of a problem, and the problems they were applied to could have been solved in better ways.