On the steps to becoming a robot

[Supersub6]

I see that the news today was saying that self-drive cars will be coming to our roads in the near future.
This, along with the 'Ask Alexa', Cortana, control during the pandemic is another step in making us all a non-thinking robotic society who will always need to be told what they can and can't do.

Oh joy, the car will drive itself at 37mph and you can read the paper or get in the back seat with the missus while you get nowhere fast. There again, if you can only go at 37mph you wouldn't want to bother anyway. Is this a ploy to get more and more of us off the roads with electric cars that need charging all the time etc.,etc?

Are 'they' intent on trying to make life very mundane for those growing up? It certainly seems so, however, I am happy to say that I am old enough to not give a toss. Life goes on.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

"or get in the back seat with the missus" - Naughty boy!

[Balanbam00]

"or get in the back seat with the missus" - Naughty boy!

That's not naughty BT, it's naughty when he gets in with the **** star's 2 or more, who knows?

[outwoodclaret]

I asked Marvin the Paranoid Android whether there was any likelihood of this coming about and he laughed saying “Danger, Will Robinson”. I took that as a No.

[sinkov]

I asked Marvin the Paranoid Android whether there was any likelihood of this coming about and he laughed saying “Danger, Will Robinson”. I took that as a No.

I share Sub's fears about the way we're going. There is one simple, infallible test I apply to all these proposals and ideas. I ask, 'Is it lunacy?', if the answer is 'Yes', you can be assured it will happen.

Try the test with driverless cars.

[Norder]

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go back 200 years or more...the warnings were sounded, but it mattered little what the masses thought, increased wealth brought increased power to the few, and with it, a weakened the people, replaced by machines and reliant on them and their owners to put money in the pocket and food on the table....from that time on, the ability to control society, to manipulate the future, was in the hands of those with most.
And here we are, its been talked about, written about, and made films about....but the process went on relentless and with little complaint, as with greater automation...computerisation seeping into all aspects of our lives, folk it seems, were happy to be assisted - but where does that leave us, and where will it take us ?.....if we allow it, wherever it likes - or more perhaps, wherever those who have control over it's power/message/data...decide.

it means nothing to me, if tomorrow there was no computers, tech, mobile network etc etc...I wouldn't give a damn !

[Supersub6]

"...........it means nothing to me, if tomorrow there was no computers, tech, mobile network etc etc...I wouldn't give a damn !"

I certainly wouldn't argue with that because even my charity work has been made much more difficult because of technology!
I think that they have based the new computer system on the Post Office model!

[barrie_burn]

I blame Hargreaves.If he hadn't invented the spinning jenny none of this would have happened

[Supersub6]

I blame Hargreaves.If he hadn't invented the spinning jenny none of this would have happened

Typical, I put something on here about everyone becoming robots and barrie decided to put the blame on one of my fellow townsmen who, because of his invention, provided lots of work for Lancastrians, including my mother and father and, as a result, was responsilbe for helping me along life's journey!

barrie ---there was absolutely nowt digital about his spinning jenny --just pure hard work.