Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Ahh, the old bedtime drink.

 

I admit to having a so-called smart phone. I also have a smart wife - but don't tell her I said so, because it'll mean I have to create a wider doorway, for that enlarged cranium!!

 

Most modern cars are full of electronic doodads and buttons you daren't press

 

My modern car is full of those and buttons I need to press to shut off all the noises it makes. They drive me mad.

 

I am as smart-free as I can be. Phone, TV, meters, etc, all dumb. No sat nav. My only tech device is an ipad.

The real worry will be smart cities, where everything is tech controlled. A fault like yesterday would halt traffic lights, water treatment, the lot! And you only need water suspended for a very short time before unimaginable chaos sets in.

 

I switched all of those off too @Sheal . It's a sensory thing with me, but all these things are just more unnecessary stuff that can go wrong. They charge you thousands more for the privilege of having them too.
Daughter managed to get rid of the stupid flashing light on the door quarterlight too, which was to warn me that 'someone was overtaking'. Jeez. That's what mirrors are for - which is what I told the sales guy when I had a test drive. It was always going wrong too - flashing when you went round corners, or on empty glen roads with no vehicles within miles of me.

Smart appliances? I'll stick with the thick ones thanks....

 

Hopefully it will be a warning for individuals not to put all their reliance in technology. I've always thought that using a smartphone for every aspect of daily life was a recipe for disaster and this, on the grand scale, confirms that. With a phone, a battery fail, app fail, reader fail can bring their world crashing down. I read people bragging that they never use cash, I wonder how their supermarket shop went yesterday.

 

Cash really is King @KT53 . Cash every time

 

I agree, @Bluejayway , although if the only way you can get cash - because banks have closed most of their branches - is via the autoteller - you could be in trouble!

 

I don't know if it's called smart technology, but one of our cars tells us if a speed camera is ahead. That's really useful when it's just 20 or 30mph. When it beeps I have to remind hubby what it is.

 

BT have extended swap over to 2028? Is this the Digital Voice thingy? We've already had the first email warning about 5 months ago.

 

I really hate the "STAND CLEAR VEHICLE REVERSING" announcements disturbing the peace. You sometimes even get "CAUTION VEHICLE TURNING LEFT"! FGS, what are indicators for? And why do I need to know about it from half a mile away?