> Computers have permanently altered society. Yeah, your desktop is slower and more aggravating to use, but we're living in a world only science fiction could have dreamed of. :D

In this world where my pocket supercomputer keeps having slot machine apps and candy crush pushed onto it by the service provider, I wish I had the more utilitarian and less brand friendly version of technology dreamed up in science fiction.

Heh, guess you never watched enough cyberpunk to know the dystopia corpos would make.

> Always having a map on me which has almost every business on it? Immediately finding where something is and getting turn-by-turn directions?

This was already possible with Win CE, I had a palmtop with gps and voice navigation, maps for whole Europe were stressing that compact flash card space, but it was almost as good as current maps. Lot's of POI's too.

> Always being in contact with friends across nations. Discord servers!

Yeah, we had irc and email and ICQ too (working effortlessly on 100mHz pentium).

> Yeah, your desktop is slower and more aggravating to use, but we're living in a world only science fiction could have dreamed of. :D

It's just that average user doesn't care that much about speed, so UI's are tweaked for look until they are barely usable on prev-gen devices, but good enough on latest shiny ones. On the other hand - all those need for more hardware speed gave us truly new possibilities, but somehow apart from better graphics I can't remember anything I could only dream of (maybe discovering plants or birds from photo, which was deemed "too hard" by XKCD[0] in 2014).

[0] https://xkcd.com/1425/