It’s been a weird season for tech. You can see it in the money, with top companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix seeing their market value decline or their growth stall, often for the first time in years. You can also see it in the chatter – the social media, news features, and surveys all asking some variation of, ‘how can we make things better?’

On the one hand, the ways in which consumer technologies are embedded into every aspect of our lives continue to increase.