I'm sure plenty of people would have appreciated never having to learn to read to fill out paper forms in the past either.

This has gone off on a weird tangent; the article is about how a new standard can greatly simplify account passwords, the very hardest and frustrating thing about modern life on the web.

Changing that into "we shouldn't have any rich if we don't want to" is a strange reaction to making tech more accessible. But perhaps if one wants to eliminate tech from people's lives then making tech as bad and painful as possible might be one way to do that; but it seems like a foolish way to pursue that goal.

> Changing that into "we shouldn't have any rich if we don't want to" is a strange reaction to making tech more accessible.

I am 100% in favor of giving people the option to log in with their phone instead of a password, if they want to. If that's all the article meant, I stand corrected.

But, I got the impression that the people quoted in the article were working to eventually remove passwords as a method of authentication. That's not cool, because it requires users to have a secondary device.

I don't think my impression was entirely unreasonable, because we're already seeing it in the number of websites forcing users to set up two factor authentication. Note that many of these so-called "two-factor" solutions allow the user to reset their password using only their phone (which is what really makes SIM-swapping such a problem), which means your password is effectively optional, but a phone is required.

> Some people don't want any technology at all.

That's a shame. They must get very cold in the winter without the ability to build a fire.

What tech do you need to build a fire?

A controlled fire is itself a form of technology.

If you don't want any kind of medical technology it will most likely be a rather short future...