3 EXAMPLES....

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When I was up in Scotland a month or so ago, I became involved in a very heavy discussion about whether machines would one day take over the role of decision makers, thereby relegating humans to be being mere parts AKA assistants....

I was proposing that in many cases that change had already begun and that it was absolutely certain to be completed in the long run....

But I lost the discussion because I couldn't think of many handy examples with which to illustrate my point...


Well in the last 3 days, I've heard of 3. They're all subtle ones, that could provoke the response

'So fucking what?!?'

But these kind of changes always start with small things that drip and drip and drip, then before long you've got a flood and there ain't no stopping it...


Anyway, here they are...


1....

I've recently decided that dishwashers are an absolute waste of fucking time.

Yes boss, you end up washing the stuff before it goes in, then spending a load of cash on tablets, water and energy to run it, then end up washing half the stuff again because the machine is fucking crap, AND THEN you end up having to replace things like glasses more often, because they get scratched by the hard bastard chemicals the machiens use..

Clearly, the Dishwasher is one of these machines, that if you have a very good one, and the money to run it, can be a good shitty labour saving device - but if you have a cheap and crap one (like ours) then you're far better off doing it by hand.

It's quicker, more satisfying and cheaper....


So, after 3 years of ignoring this fact, I've taken to returning to hand washing because of these 3 reasons as stated above...

Mrs Giovanni isn't quite convinced, but as long as she doesn't have to wash up, she doesn't much care...

However the other day she said:

'The problem is though, they say that if you don't use dishwashers, they clog up and don't work so well..'

Well ignoring the fact it isn't working well now, and the possibility that this idea (which I've certainly heard spouted elsewhere) isn't in fact clever bollox, spread by dishwasher and/or tablet salesmen, this is an example of a machine having a say in a decision.

You don't want to ruin the machine, so instead you keep using it - even if it's not working well fo you but for the good of the machine...

Of course I ignored this advice as the machine belongs to the landlord and I'd rather have the time and money saved, than the machine - but millions wouldn't...


2............

The Italian family arrive yesterday and they have a hire car.

Today they decide to drive out to Oxford and then Stonehenge rather than go into town on the bus, because they have a car and they don't want to leave it standing there for more than a day or so...

I know this feeling.

When we've hired cars, I always feel we should keep them running and not leave them standing for too long doing nothing.

That's especially been the case here on Fish Island

Yes boss, we don't have an 'inside the gates' parking space and many cars have been broken into on the street - you therefore figure that the best thing to do, is to keep it moving, so it doesn't look like it's been left - so that it doesn't look weak and vulnerable...

But then the machines making the fundamental decision and you're complying for the good of the machine...

It's deciding what's to be done with the day and you are following it's recomendation.....


3.......

Having returned from the day trip, Mrs G was telling me that having navigated through London without Sat Nav (instead using PG£) she found it very strange to do so with Sat Nav...

Basically, she found she was thinking to go one way, but the talking machine was saying to go another...

The machine won each time and it's instructions were followed, not least because if you don't have a map and you get off route, the Sat Nav can no longer help you until you find and then type in a new location....


There's also the authority issue...

So very often the mass of people would rather do what they're told too do by a person (or in this case) a machine in authority, than to trust and follow their own instincts....

This is why people go to war and why they slow down (when told to by their Sat Nav) when there are speed cameras in the area...


So, these very few examples prove to me that we'd all better WATCH THE FUCK OUT!!!!!

THE METAL AND PLASTIC BASTARDS ARE TAKING OVER!!!!!!

RUN TO THE HILLS!!!!!!

AAGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!