Technology

[happy daze john in oz]

Yesterday a young 13 year old girl was buried, a victim of cyber bullying.
Not the first case of this, but a symptom of how modern day technology is having a detrimental affect on society.

In our day we all knew of the school or local bully and we would find a way to fix them, but with cyber space it is not so easy.

Just another example of how modern day inventions do not always have a positive effect, in fact some can do the very opposite.

As mad progresses, well we think so, more and more inventions will decide how we live our lives, but is that a good thing?
Will man each the point where he can no longer think for himself, all tasks done by robots or computerized systems.

Surely there is more to life than being an autonoman?

Then there is the rush to advance artificial intelligence, another form of parliament, but where will it all end??

[John Pruden]

ivan looking at the bulk of the young today half could not even spell work never mind do it the parents don't drive their kids anymore to make something of themselves lucky ours listened to us and have? looking back i bet my dad thought i had a hard life i hope our john has a better life than mine? and i passed that on to my kids as regards bullies only one time at school and one at sea and they were sorry for their actions trouble is i still think i can do what i did years ago? jp

[Ivan Cloherty]

#2 Methinks thou dost credit this poor yorick with too much intelligence forsooth, as yon #1 's author is that venerable scribe from the Antipodes who doth wander far in all climes in shorts and sandals as did Moses

[j.sabourn]

Only the sandals when the ravers are too hot to walk on Ivan. Otherwise his tootsies are in the nude. JWS.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI John.
There will only be one girl to blame for that bullying, a so called leader, and she would be the one jealous of that young girls achievements, I think the parents would know who that girl is and should confront her with what she has done, else the girl's death will have been in vain.
Cheers Des

[Lewis McColl]

I heard on the news that GM are starting production of driverless cars. Not sure if I would feel comfortable being driven down a motor way at 70 mph by a computer ? But well I suppose we are content enough to sail or fly around the world by ships & aircraft run by computers.

Question or food for thought, if and when Driverless cars are introduced on UK & EU road networks will you still have to have a driving licence? Could a partially sighted person use one on the road. Recently we had a post about some on here who unfortunately have cataracts and other handicaps , could this kind of technology be classified as beneficial.
Who would feel comfortable driving down the road and looking in your rear view mirror to see you are being followed by 50 ton juggernaut lorry??? I think my reaction would be to try and put as much distance between it and me.
Technology fails as we all know. In the past two or three weeks here in France there have been accidents at automated level crossings, sadly one involved a school bus hit mid-ships and several fatalities occurred, no one had done anything wrong , barriers had failed to close so bus driver carried on driving. Another one thankfully was a near miss, as the barriers were closing the train thundered through.

[Keith Tindell]

In the good old USA they have been using some of these cars, and accidents have occurred , but can you imagine when its all driverless, and some moron, or even a foreign power, hacks into the system and brings all cars to a halt all over the country ?, kt

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forgot to add the link

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/ubers-...-hard-problem/
kt

[j.sabourn]

Keith our broadband was down for 4. Hours today which meant we had no phones or communication to the outside unless we flashed up our mobile. The short sightedness of our various governments bodes Ill for the future. Any conflict in the world will render the use of Communications and GPS systems as we know at present useless. Will be back to wait until. You see the whites of their eyes and fix bayonets. With all the electronic gadgetry of today and all the billions and billions of electronic air waves in our atmosphere, I sometimes wonder if that has any bearing on our meteological changing systems and everything else is just a cover up. Cheers JWS....

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
In NSW they are changing over to NBN the national network, we have had a number of letters from various companies offering their wares, one from Telecom said that the phone lines are being cut off and to change over to the new network fibre cable. Well they have done that in Sydney suddenly there are no emergency phones in Lifts no fire-brigade phones, from the start it has been a total ****up, so much for technology.
Cheers Des.
PS I have wireless and will be keeping it.

[j.sabourn]

Bring. Back semaphore as well Des. I can remember the ships being fitted out with the. Naval special signals they use, they are probably obsolete now. Hugh was in that branch and would have known all about it. Every ship I saw go down with the fleet to the Falklands be it a harbour tug v or liner had its naval contingent of signals conversant with all different aspects. Times have 8changed since then. I used to have 2 telephone lines into the house one for the computer and one for phone. Along comes Broadnband and upsets the lot. It’s no faster and if anything slower than before. Cheers another downer for our incompetent at times government departments. JWS...