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Samsung fridge set my mums house on fire. Caused well over 100k of damage and loss. Just saying. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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Yeh not so clear cut as that but still there is truth in what you say. You need to imagine it from their perspective as they have no way of comprehending it from yours, like literally none. |
This is true. And I'm not totally against technology and connectivity, I mean for the busy multi-tasking working mum of 3kids it must be a big help being able to set the oven to turn on, while dropping the kids at after school clubs, and avoiding traffic tailbacks in road works, with annoying screaming kids tired/hungry/needing the loo etc.
I just wish this generation could find a workaround to all this as their fingertips technology and smart devices when it all goes wrong. This could be being better prepared, knowing how to read a map, or who to ring to find out opening hours, and actually getting to know the immediate area around where they live and what facilities are where.
Look at it this way, there's been an explosion in new home building and thus demand for electricity from local substations as well as all the other services. With existing infrastructure stretched to its limit there is going to be far more power cuts in the next 10years than the last 10years etc. Same for the broadband infrastructure that is the industry I work in. Sure this superfast and then ultrafast fibre to premises is all well and good, but with VOIP too, everything is only going to work with a reliable power supply. There's also the kit that runs all this fibre light sources, and the equipment that de-codes and sorts Internet traffic being the limitations of how fast and how much people can be connected to everything all the time.
Everything requires power, and nothing will work otherwise. Its a shame people can't be a bit more resourceful too. We were brought up to know what to do in a power cut, but today's mum's that have always had all this connectivity and fingertips remote technology available, well they can't tell their kids how to adapt and survive without stuff when things fall over. |
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We dont pay for metered water up here above the wall so that element of being off grid is no problem. In fact water pressure is so good i could probably drive a little turbine off it
Off grid is very attractive though. When I started adding up all the crap I pay for and added to that the actual hassle of tracking whats the best deal on it all it just makes me want to go full tree living crusty. My Girlfriend is none too keen though as much as I tried to put over the point that im just looking at reducing my life to the bare necessary essentials and this is a good thing. I worked out my main modern world neccesities are, Bank Account: Mortgage Account: House Insurance: Bike Insurance/Running costs: Basic smartphone: Groceries. Everything else is do awaywithable one way or another. |
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Jayy Mr. Ponzi
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stevo as b4 wrote: | Again it's Millenials and those in their early 30's that really lapp up this automated do everything from an electronic device types. Its Google maps and sat nav to drive from one suburb to the next 2miles away etc.
But without Google, Hive, Alexa etc etc they are really fucked up and can't come up with a plan or answer to any problem or issue.
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As someone who fits that description and works in the tech industry... I couldn't be any less reliant on those types of things.
I reluctantly use Facebook but have everything on ultra privacy and mostly only very close family and friends, around 50 odd people. I don't use any other social media, the only reason I'm still there is a large page I own and some business pages.
I own the latest smart phone but have no apps on it. Everything is on lock down and focused on privacy and anonymity.
Every day I talk about Ai, VR, Rpa, Blockchain,etc and how on the one hand it's amazing but we're literally feeding and training future Ai by Google searching, talking to the devices, etc etc.
My general opinion is that we'll fuck it up.. as we always do. It will either end up wiping us out or we'll spend 50 years trying to fix it.
I'd love to ditch my phone and not use one but my job requires it. On the other hand, in the future, people with our skillsets will be the ones who do best. The technophobes and people who shun innovation and change will be the outsiders and people at huge disadvantage as we move in to the robot revolution and age of information... |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 239 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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