My Music Journal 2025: April 28, 2025

 

Monday, April 28, 2025

Time: 7:35PM
Song: Lonely Boy
Artist: The Black Keys
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Spotify.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5G1sTBGbZT5o4PNRc75RKI?si=57ce0df8c43b440a

I just spent twenty minutes trying to figure out how to access tickets to a concert we are going to on Saturday in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry.

At the risk of sounding like an old man, sometimes I wonder why we think technology makes things easier. Once upon a time, you would buy tickets to an event and either they mailed them to you, or you picked them up at the window. Now that normally isn’t even an option. 

Instead, you have to download an app, but before that you have to setup an account with its own personal password (one of about a thousand we must all try to remember or risk saving in our devices and then having stolen on the interwebs), and then they have to email you to verify that account, and then they need to text a code. 

AI is going to win by simply nickeling and diming our time away with hoops to jump through in order to receive basic necessities that once took no time at all. 

My parents went to a wedding this last weekend, and they said the hotel they stayed at required a QR code scan just to use the elevator. I am sure it’s in the name of security, but I sense it’s the type of hotel where security was never really that much in question. 

When I sign into my email account, it now asks if I want to use fingerprint or face recognition technology to make signing in quicker. I didn’t realize it took so long before. My sense is once they force this onto us, we’ll still need to enter a password and then at some point they’ll add the sending of a text to enter a code. All for me to get to an email where other than checking for writing submission responses, I never receive any messages from actual people. 

Maybe we’ll wake up one morning and realize that most of this stuff isn’t making anything better, but I doubt it. We’ll just find a way to add another layer of codes and passwords.